{"id":11142,"date":"2018-08-09T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11142"},"modified":"2018-08-09T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:39:48","slug":"pharmacy-made-pain-creams-flagged-on-fears-of-medicare-fraud-and-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11142","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy-Made Pain Creams Flagged On Fears Of Medicare Fraud And Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Medicare pays hundreds of millions of dollars each year for prescription creams, gels and lotions made-to-order by pharmacies \u2014 mainly as pain treatments. But a new report finds that officials are concerned about possible fraud and patient safety risks from products made at nearly a quarter of the pharmacies that fill the bulk of those prescriptions. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/pharmacy-made-pain-creams-flagged-on-fears-of-medicare-fraud-risk\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65081420&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-88fz9VjA5xL-50ZVqDbopFGIobyTjkEqCmLykrO8Z8FZtldjgZEWApsdozpAORDoIX-KU2S9NyZlkdcaC9VCLjSQC0Qg&amp;_hsmi=65081420\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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