Tag: retail pharmacy
Pharmacist sentenced for Medicare, Medicaid fraud
October 25, 2024HME News Staff
LONDON, Ky. – Stephanie Collins, a former pharmacist, has been sentenced to 20 months for her role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by billing for medications that she never dispensed to her customers. According to her plea agreement, Collins operated as a registered pharmacist and operated Stephanie’s Down Home Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy located in Corbin, Ky. The pharmacy sought reimbursement from Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid for drugs and other medical products...
Philips buys Australian pharmacy sleep services provider
March 31, 2017HME News Staff
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, and SYDNEY - Royal Philips has signed an agreement to buy Australian Pharmacy Sleep Services, in a move that the company says will accelerate its home sleep testing offering through the pharmacy channel in Australia.
“With the addition of APSS to our sleep and respiratory care business in Australia, Philips will be able to provide better access to home sleep testing for those who need it, where and when they need it,” said Kevin Barrow, managing director...
Upstate HomeCare looks to be the one
September 30, 2009Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Upstate HomeCare opened a retail pharmacy in June, but the provider does not plan to compete with the Walgreens of the world.
"We're looking to take care of the sickest of the sick," said Greg LoPresti, vice president and COO. "We want the patients that have from 10 to 40 prescriptions from (multiple) prescribers. When you have that many prescribers, you're chance of medication errors goes up exponentially. We are looking to be their one pharmacy."
Upstate patients can order...