West Virginia VA Hospital Switched Antipsychotic Meds with Older Drugs to Cut Costs

[Busybody]

Hey

They needa have mo money to send Hussein BLACK Obama and Mike BLACK Obama on separate vacations

Why is anyone forced to have to go to the VA?

Via FreeBeacon:

A Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia switched out patients’ prescribed medications with older drugs to cut costs, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced in a letter to Congress and the White House Wednesday.

The Beckley, West Virginia, Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) substituted prescribed antipsychotic medications with older drugs as a cost-savings measure. The practice violated VA policy and posed a public health risk, the OSC said in a press release.

A VA whistleblower first disclosed the allegations to the OSC, an independent federal agency that handles claims of whistleblower retaliation and improper personnel practices. The allegations were confirmed by an internal VA investigation.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I know...do the veteran supporting Republican thing and cut their funding again, that will show them!!

 

[phrodeau]

I wonder how many politicians are on those meds.

 

[Busybody]

BotanyBoy This user is on your Ignore List.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I wonder how many politicians are on those meds.

Oh god no...they voted themselves special HC.....

One they don't cut funding to .....ever.

 

[Busybody]

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We all know you're a coward like the late vetteturd.....

 

[Busybody]

Hey

They needa have mo money to send Hussein BLACK Obama and Mike BLACK Obama on separate vacations
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VA Not Only Denied Care To Vets, But Also, By Actions, Denied Benefits To Their Families After Death

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Unconscionable.

Via Washington Times:

In a voice choked with emotion, Rustyann Brown told lawmakers Wednesday how the Department of Veterans Affairs routinely turned its back on veterans and their families, even in death.

Mrs. Brown, a former employee in the VA’s Oakland office, was assigned one day in 2012 to a special team given the job of reviewing more than 13,000 veterans’ claims dating back to the mid-1990s that had never been addressed. As they sorted through the mounds of papers, she said, they often discovered that the veterans had long since died without receiving the requested benefits.

In those cases, Mrs. Brown testified, VA managers instructed employees to mark the files “NAN” — for “no action necessary.” But she said taking that step also prevented a veteran’s survivors from receiving benefits.

“If the widow ever came in to file a claim … there’s nothing there,” she told the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, her voice breaking. “There’s no information about her husband. On a daily basis, we were seeing piles of [claims] set aside. It was our obligation to contact that family. We didn’t do that. We should have.”

A VA official from Oakland assured lawmakers that the agency has since taken care of all the old claims, but Mrs. Brown called that “a lie.”

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oh, that all doesn't matter. Let's have Big Brother take care of us all anyhow.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Oh, that all doesn't matter. Let's have Big Brother take care of us all anyhow.

LOL glad to see you letting your true colors fly criticizing the VA after you vote to defund them.... because after you cut them off and do everything you can to sabotage them so they resort to doing whatever they can and scraping every crevice on the bottom of the barrel.

All so you can go "SEE!! SOCIALISM BAD!!"

Don't forget to tell everyone how much you support the troops....dick.

 

[sigh]

Oh, that all doesn't matter. Let's have Big Brother take care of us all anyhow.

Every hospital in the country - that's every single one - practices therapeutic substitution of drugs within drug classes in order to reduce costs, and they've been doing it for decades. Find something else to get outraged about, boys.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Every hospital in the country - that's every single one - practices therapeutic substitution of drugs within drug classes in order to reduce costs, and they've been doing it for decades. Find something else to get outraged about, boys.

Are you saying they administer drugs with expired effectiveness?

 

[Busybody]

Every hospital in the country - that's every single one - practices therapeutic substitution of drugs within drug classes in order to reduce costs, and they've been doing it for decades. Find something else to get outraged about, boys.

well

good to know

when CUNT CLINTON gets in

you will PROTECT HER AS WELL

BURRITOS!

 

[sigh]

Are you saying they administer drugs with expired effectiveness?

No, of course not, and neither does the VA. But they will substitute to another drug altogether that will have the same effect but at a lower cost. Drug companies are constantly coming up with "new" versions of older drugs, sort of a "me too" approach. For instance, the first H2 antagonist to come out was cimetidine (Tagamet). It was such a huge success that now we have cimetidine, ranitidine (Zantac), famotidine (Pepcid) and nizatidine (Axid). Since they all do the same thing, hospitals will contract for just one, getting the best price they can, and change all orders for any of the others to the chosen one. In our hospital, orders for cimetidine, ranitidine and nizatidine are all changed automatically to famotidine at an equipotent dose. We also substitute narcotics, antibiotics (various classes), antipsychotics, urinary incontinence meds, and many others.

Often, the drug chosen for the formulary will be one of the earlier (older) drugs since they've been on the market longer and have gone generic and thus have a much lower acquisition cost. It's smart business and has been practiced for many years all over the country, and has nothing to do with Obama or the ACA (or even Hillary).

My question about the story is why it's against VA policy to do this. As I said before, ALL other hospitals do it. My only guess is that since the VA is part of the government, where politicians can have a clinical impact by determining policy, that lobbying efforts by the medical industries have kept the practice in check, not to improve patient care, but to protect the interests of large campaign donors. It is not in the interest of either the patients or the taxpayers to stop therapeutic substitution. Hospitals should not be forced to keep four versions of the same drug in stock. It drives up inventory cost as well as treatment cost, with no clinical advantage.

 

[Busybody]

blah blah blah, SIGH as a confirmed Hussein BLACK Obama and future CUNT CLINTON apologist ignores is this

The practice violated VA policy and posed a public health risk, the OSC said in a press release.

So all teh BLAH BLAH is BEE ESS


Hey

They needa have mo money to send Hussein BLACK Obama and Mike BLACK Obama on separate vacations

 

[Busybody]

SIGH, like all LIB LOONZ is unable to say


ITS WRONG!


Never ever will Hussein BLACK Obama and CUNTCLINTON be worng

But when an R gets there

SHE WILL BE LEADING THE MARCH WITH PITCHFORKS

 

[Busybody]

SIGH says....its all ok, after all I needa protect Hussein BLACK Obama

Veterans Affairs Spent $5K for 'Floor Cleaning' For Obama's Visit
7:34 AM, APR 27, 2015 • BY JERYL BIER

A year after news broke of the waiting list scandal at the Veterans Affairs medical facility in Phoenix, Arizona, President Obama finally visited the facility in March. And while they didn't quite roll out the red carpet for the president, they did clean the floors -- and spent $5,000 to do it.

A record of the contract is posted at the USASpending.gov website, and included in the details is the description "FLOOR CLEANING SERVICE FOR POTUS VISIT."



The contract posting also indicates that "urgency" required a non-competitive contract award, and "only one source" was investigated to complete the work. News of the planned visit came out just days in advance of the president's trip.

While at the Phoenix medical center, the president held a roundtable discussion where he heard from veterans, and also announced the formation of the MyVA Advisory Committee:

The MyVA Advisory Committee will advise the VA on additional ways the VA can work to improve customer service delivery and veterans’ outcomes. President Obama also charged the new committee with assessing what progress has already been made at the VA to improve veterans’ access to quality medical care.