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Upcoming Events featuring
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The Alliance Annual Seminar
May 11, 2011
Monona Terrace and Convention Center
Madison, WI
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Health and Welfare Plan Management for Midsize Employers Conference
June 7-10
Chicago, IL
Stakeholders receive $200 off registration with code CL-NCR!
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National CooperativeRx is a not-for-profit coalition founded and owned by plan sponsors to achieve higher value prescription benefits through volume purchasing, clinical solutions, actionable data and unparalleled customer service. For your sales and marketing needs, please contact us at 866-679-9479, extension 223
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National CooperativeRx Presents:
A Physician's Perspective on e-Prescribing
A Noon Hour Webinar with Dr. Trevver Buss, Prairie Clinic
and Wayne Salverda, National CooperativeRx
12:00 Noon-1:00 CST, May 19, 2011
Click here to register
Description: During this hour, Dr. Trevver Buss and Wayne Salverda will update stakeholders on the current climate for e-prescribing and the significant benefits and cost savings opportunities for health plans. They will also review obstacles that stand in the way of its wider adoption and talk about key messages for employers in encouraging this game changing technology.
Dr. Trevver Buss is a family practice physician at the Prairie Clinic in Sauk City, Wisconsin. When we asked the Wisconsin Medical Society to help us find a physician leader on e-prescribing who could work with us to understand the physician perspective, Dr. Buss was immediately recommended. He's joined by our own pharmacist, Wayne Salverda, who will offer his perspective from the pharmacy end and detail ways the coalition is working with physicians to save plans money through e-prescribing.
We hope you can join us!
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HealthDay. In a study that compared asthma pills against commonly prescribed inhaled steroids, British researchers found that the oral medications were as effective as the inhaled drugs.(Preidt, 5/4) Full story
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Food and Drug Administration. Issues new guidance for over-the-counter drug dosage dispensing devices in an effort to reduce accidental drug overdoses, and provides helpful advice parents should follow when dispensing drugs to children. Press release
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Bloomberg. Bayer AG, the German maker of aspirin, is open to a "merger of equals" that would strengthen its health-care unit and create a drugmaker on par with European rivals Sanofi-Aventis SA, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and AstraZeneca Plc. (Kresge, 5/3) Full story
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Associated Press. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new diabetes pill from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly for patients who can't control their blood sugar with older medicines. (Perrone, 5/2) Full story
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The White House. Releases a new report entitled, "Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis" which outlines an action plan to reduce prescription drug abuse by 15 percent over the next five years. Report
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Empowering Consumers. At National CooperativeRx, we understand that engaged consumers are a critical aspect of controlling health costs. That's why we focus on solutions that support high-value consumer choices. From our plan design recommendations to Caremark's innovative iBenefit report, we offer a number of different solutions aimed at helping enrollees get the most effective drug through the most cost effective means, and take that drug for the right duration. For more information about how we support consumers, please visit our website and also be sure to visit the Members Only section for additional consumer-focused resources available to you.
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