{"id":13262,"date":"2019-05-20T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13262"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:53:44","slug":"why-missouris-the-last-holdout-on-a-statewide-rx-monitoring-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13262","title":{"rendered":"Why Missouri\u2019s The Last Holdout On A Statewide Rx Monitoring Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Missouri retained its lonely title as the only state without a statewide prescription drug monitoring program \u2014 for the seventh year in a row \u2014 after the legislative session ended Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Patient advocates, politicians, experts and members of the medical community had hoped this would finally be the year Missouri would create a statewide electronic database designed to help spot the abuse of prescription drugs. After all, Republican Gov. Mike Parson had pushed for it and, more important, its longtime opponent was no longer in office to block it.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/why-missouris-the-last-holdout-on-a-statewide-rx-monitoring-program\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72834035&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_oddkz5fdklC_OBVkGU19cBt471NI9Zy-u21_v2Vz1sC8fNs_V_l6EsEtqbTlk43qdUnPEN8pdJvgGfEUILQzXS3ogJA&amp;_hsmi=72834035\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" 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>(By Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News) Missouri retained its lonely title as the only state without a statewide prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262","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=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13263,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions\/13263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}