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Medicaid to save billions as antipsychotic drug patents expire

Medicaid will likely save billions of dollars each year when patents for five antipsychotic medications expire, allowing the state-federal health insurance program to offer generic versions for its members.

Fighting prescription drug fraud: 2 wins and a delay

The federal government scored big wins against prescription drug fraud last week, while New Jersey pushed back its implementation deadline for providers' use of securer prescription pads.  

Children on Medicaid get more antipsychotics

For reasons that still aren't clear, children covered by Medicaid are prescribed antipsychotic drugs more often than those with private insurance, according to new federally-funded research. The

Psychiatrist solicited funds from drug companies

Usually when we tell you about a conflict of interest case in which a doctor received funds from a pharmaceutical company, the pharmaceutical company offered the doctor the funds. In this case,