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Michael Burgess: “I appreciate that you are focusing on providers, I appreciate you are focusing on patients, but I have got to tell you…”

On the recordApril 10, 2018
I appreciate that you are focusing on providers, I appreciate you are focusing on patients, but I have got to tell you, one of the things that has been frustrating for me, the CMS has a lot of data at your disposal, and we have come up against problems where pharmacies in relatively small communities have received way too much product for the patient populations they are treating.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess expresses frustration over pharmacies receiving excessive medications relative to community needs.

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