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Article #72Prescription Patrol...
From: Dave Taylor
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1986 19:25
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1986 19:25
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-------- This article is from Dave Taylor <taylor@hplabs.HP.COM> and was received on Sat Jun 28 13:39:30 1986 -------- [from "U.S.News and World Report", June 27th, 1986, page 63] "Computers are becoming detectives in the crackdown on doctors who illegallly prescrive amphetamines and other drugs. Two years ago, Florida pharmacies and hopitals began using a computerized prescription-tracking system. Called Prescription Abuse Data Synthesis, it is now used in 22 states. As a result, AMA doctors report, licenses of 150 physicians have been revoked, and 500 more under investigation. Also, PADS has caused a 30 to 70 percent drop in use of commonly abused prescription drugs and a 1 percent reduction of medicaid spending due to false health-insurance claims. That amounts to about $11 million in savings for Michigan alone."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!ut-sally!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Prescription Patrol... Message-ID: <398@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jul-86 15:25:22 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.398 Posted: Tue Jul 1 15:25:22 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Jul-86 06:24:54 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!taylor Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: taylor@hplabs