Re: FYI: FDA - MedWatch - OxyContin - Illegal Promotion By Manufacturer May Cause Health Risks For Consumers

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Talking about Medicare part D......Didn't know you had to call in and enroll yourself, I was under the impression that you were automatically signed up on it like Part A and B....But noooooo. Just to let others know if you ever have Medicaid...you have to call medicare and sign up for medicare part D yourself. I might be able to help someone from having to go through the same crap I just went through today. I worked on getting 4 prescriptions filled since yesterday..I started back in today at 8 am and finally at 5:30 the tech at my pharmacy called and said it was taken care of.....I called medicaid 7 times and was told something different every time I called, but each time was told that since I had medicare I could not have medicaid any more. Even though my plan is not over until the 31 of this month.When I called medicare 7 times I was given a run around and transferred several different times each call. Finally on the 7th call I

talked to a lady that told me since I was in "transition" I could get my meds by having the pharmacy do a "facilitated plan" the pharmacy has to do the claim through medicare for 14 days worth of pills. Do not sign up for medicare part D before you do this other wise it knocks you out of being able to get it. Thank-goodness I had a lady at the K-Mart pharmacy with nerves of steel and the patients of a saint!!! If you need more info I will be glad to help you. E-mail me at this same address. I have pills and am finally getting medicare figured out some. Love to all, It is so stupid that some drugs are not approved on Medicare Part D. I take clonazapam which is excluded the last time I looked but thankfully my secondary insurance pays for it. Even if they didn't, the cost is low on this drug but it isn't right to exclude drugs that a patients DOCTOR has prescribed. It's ludicrous. Sharon FDA - MedWatch - OxyContin - Illegal Promotion By Manufacturer May Cause Health Risks For Consumers MedWatch - The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting ProgramFDA informed healthcare professionals of criminal charges and civilliabilities brought against Purdue Frederick in connection with severalillegal schemes to promote, market and sell OxyContin, a powerfulprescription pain reliever that the company produces. The manufacturer' ssales force was trained to make false claims about the product tohealthcare professionals, thereby, misbranding OxyContin by illegallypromoting the

drug as being less addictive, less subject to abuse, andless likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other painmedications. These practices falsely promote the product and may causehealth risks for consumers.Read the complete 2007 Safety summary, including a link to the FDA PressRelease regarding this issue at:http://www.fda. gov/medwatch/ safety/2007/ safety07. htm#OxyContin____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ ________To ensure delivery of these timely alerts to your in-box and prevent rejection of the notice by a spam filter, please add our MedWatch address, MEDWATCHLIST (DOT) NIH.GOV, to your address book.Thank you for using FDA MedWatch as a trusted source for timely safety information on drugs, devices and diagnostics regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If

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