{"id":10351,"date":"2018-05-08T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10351"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:24:08","slug":"walmart-pharmacies-and-sams-club-to-limit-the-supply-of-first-time-opioid-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10351","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Pharmacies and Sam&#8217;s Club to limit the supply of first-time opioid prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Walmart pharmacies, as well as Sam\u2019s Club, will soon limit the supply of first-time opioid prescriptions for acute pain to seven days. The company\u2019s initiative will start within 60 days and comes as an increasing number of states and entities in the health-care industry have placed limits on opioid prescriptions. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/386552-walmart-to-place-restrictions-on-opioid-prescriptions-at-its-pharmacies?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62748576&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Rg5Yh8xT_mXI_Is9_b3l7jCTN6INUGTHbDX_XM859_4IHxngigLZxHbqQ9ci71DbWiTK7nn3Fy3rIIqNiLuIAS83S1g&amp;_hsmi=62748576\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart pharmacies, as well as Sam\u2019s Club, will soon limit the supply of first-time opioid prescriptions for acute pain to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10352,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions\/10352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}