“We hope the treatment of addiction issues isn’t more burdensome than when a doctor gets someone addicted. It helps on the counseling side, and it helps once that client relationship has been established face to face, those continued visits can happen telemedicine,” a treatment specialist said.
The money comes from companies marketing medications, vaccines and medical devices, ranging from HIV/AIDS drugs to contact lenses.
In October the company’s founder was arrested in Arizona after being indicted for allegedly using a “speakers program” to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients.
“For us, this is something, we are preparing all of this hoping we never have to file it, and that’s always a tough spot to be in. It’s ridiculous if we have to seek it.” — Brady Henderson, legal director of ACLU of Oklahoma.
If approved by the court, the merger agreement would allow the nonprofit organization, OU Medicine Inc., to take over ownership of most of the hospitals and clinics that are part of the OU Medical System, currently owned by the for-profit Hospital Corp. of America, as well as take over management of the medical system from HCA.
The ADvantage Waiver Program is designed to help seniors and adults with disabilities live at home. It aims to keep people living at home, rather than in a nursing home or similar types of adult care.
Donald Maisch’s exit is at least the fourth high-ranking health department employee to leave the agency since Monday.
I am begging them. They need to compromise.” — Jill Young, program chief of outpatient services for Family & Children’s Services
