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Lawyer Calls for DOJ to End ‘Indiscriminate Raids’ on Doctors

Lawyer Calls for DOJ to End ‘Indiscriminate Raids’ on Doctors

In recent years, hundreds of physicians, pharmacists and addiction treatment doctors have had their offices raided and searched by DEA agents. Many of the raids were orchestrated by the Justice Department’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, a special team of investigators created in 2017 to mine opioid prescribing data to identify suspicious orders and practices. The investigations have resulted in the high-profile arrests of healthcare providers for fraud and risky opioid prescribing. "If you're a doctor and you want to act like a drug dealer, we're going to treat you like one....

August 6, 2019
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Petition Asks FDA to Take NarxCare Off the Market

Petition Asks FDA to Take NarxCare Off the Market

A citizen’s petition filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking that controversial software used by Bamboo Health to analyze health data and give patients “risk scores” be declared a misbranded medical device and taken off the market. The petition by the Center for U.S. Policy (CUSP) says the software “has fundamentally altered the practice of medicine in the U.S. to the detriment of patients” by depriving many of them of access to opioids and other controlled drugs. The clinical decision support (CDS) software – known as NarxCare -- uses proprietary algorithms to gather...

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