by CCHR CO | Dec 5, 2011 | General News
Federal lawmakers received two major reports last week on the troubling lack of oversight at the federal level of the prescribing of psychiatric drugs to two of our nation’s most vulnerable populations: foster children and the elderly in care facilities. A Government...
by CCHR CO | Nov 30, 2011 | General News
A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to be released tomorrow reveals that American foster children are drugged with powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs at many times the rate of non-foster children. The GAO’s report, based on a two-year-long...
by CCHR CO | Aug 15, 2011 | News for Colorado
Colorado Ombudsman Warns Medicare/Medicaid Cuts Threaten Quality of Care Cuts in federal and state payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients provide yet another reason for monitoring the drugs given to a loved one in a nursing home or convalescent facility. Medicare...
by CCHR CO | Nov 14, 2010 | News for Wyoming
U.S. Senator Requests List in Probe of Rising Medicaid Costs Wyoming’s top 10 Medicaid prescribers of drugs at the center of a U.S. senator’s probe into fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid system wrote prescriptions on six antipsychotic drugs totaling $5 million in...
by CCHR CO | Oct 30, 2010 | News for Colorado
Colorado’s top Medicaid prescriber of drugs at the center of a U.S. senator’s probe into fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid system billed nearly $1.1 million in 2008 and 2009 for 1,304 prescriptions written on four expensive antipsychotic drugs, according to data...
