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A federal report credits Florida’s crackdown on pill mills and doctor shoppers with reducing deaths from prescription-drug overdoses by nearly one quarter. The report from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) documents a 23% reduction in prescription drug deaths in Florida from 2010 to 2012.

State lawmakers in California are considering a bill that would allow patient to opt out of health plan requirements that certain prescriptions to be filled by mail order. The bill (AB 2418) has already passed the state’s assembly and is being considered by the Senate Health Committee. Specifically, the bill would “prohibit a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2015, that provides prescription drug benefits from denying coverage for the refill of an otherwise covered drug when the refill is ordered for the purpose of placing all of the enrollee’s or insured’s medications on the same schedule for refill.”

 

Quazapam 15mg Tablets

MFG NDC# 76218-0405-01

(BRP ITEM 5078)

Class 4 (CIV)

 

Tramadol hcl ER 150mg

MFG NDC# 76218-0708-05

(BRP ITEM 4705)

 

Hydrocodone/APAP 2.5mg/325mg

MFG NDC# 76218-1828-01 (BRP ITEM 4731)

Class 3 (CIII)

 

Fenoprofen 400mg Capsules MFG

NDC# 76218-1215-09

 

Cyclobenzaprine HCL 7.5mg

(BRP ITEM 4664) Tablets