Mr. David Beshara

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  TennCare Pharmacy Director David Beshara.

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  Because prescriptions submitted electronically have no risk of being altered by the patient, David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer at TennCare, says he hopes more doctors will adopt e-prescribing, if only to circumvent the new requirement.

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  David Beshara, the chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid, said the potential savings from a state,s participation in Eli Lilly,s prescription-management program for Zyprexa were unclear. (Christopher Berkey for The New York Times)
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  Lilly,s pitch in 2005 was, , ,we,ll fund this program if you put our product on the preferred-drug list,, , said David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid.
  
  Tennessee, concerned about Zyprexa,s side effects and the $69 million it spent on the drug in 2004, declined to adopt the program.
  
  Mr. Beshara said the potential savings from the program were unclear.And he cited another concern: the program has been offered in lieu of rebates that companies often pay to states that place their drugs on preferred lists.

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  David Beshara, the chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid, said the potential savings from a state’s participation in Eli Lilly’s prescription-management program for Zyprexa were unclear.
  
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  David Beshara, the chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid, said the potential savings from a state,s participation in Eli Lilly,s prescription-management program for Zyprexa were unclear.

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  David Beshara, the chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid, said the potential savings from a state,s participation in Eli Lilly,s prescription-management program for Zyprexa were unclear.
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  Lilly,s pitch in 2005 was, , ,we,ll fund this program if you put our product on the preferred-drug list,, , said David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee Medicaid.
  
  Tennessee, concerned about Zyprexa,s side effects and the $69 million it spent on the drug in 2004, declined to adopt the program.
  
  Mr. Beshara said the potential savings from the program were unclear.And he cited another concern: the program has been offered in lieu of rebates that companies often pay to states that place their drugs on preferred lists.

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  TennCare's chief pharmacy officer Dave Beshara said claims for chronic analgesics dropped from 2.6 million in 2005, to 1.6 million in 2006, when the new rules went into effect.
  
  Beshara and others also said they expect a new law to cut down on the overprescription of painkillers.

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  In 2005, TennCare, the state's expanded Medicaid program, began limiting prescriptions for most adults to five per month, with exceptions for some medications, including treatments for chemotherapy and immunosuppression therapy, said David Beshara, TennCare chief pharmacy officer.
  
  Officials said the painkiller hydrocodone is the No. 1 drug by volume that TennCare funds.
  
  Tennessee now is on the right track, Beshara said.
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  Part of that decrease stemmed from Medicare's Part D prescription drug benefit, Beshara said.

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  David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer with the TennCare health insurance program ... with the TennCare health insurance ... www.dnj.com

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  David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer of TennCare, said halting coverage of the drugs was about safety, not saving money.Benzodiazepines are central nervous system depressants that are fairly inexpensive.But they're highly addictive, frequently abused and over-prescribed, Beshara said.
  
  "Although we might be different from our colleague states, we are no different from the federal government," Beshara said of Medicare's ban on covering the drugs.
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  "Quite frankly, I would not give one of these drugs to my mother," Beshara said.
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  Beshara said the board's charter doesn't require notification on such coverage changes, but he acknowledged that the panel has had input in similar decisions.

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  David Beshara, chief pharmacy officer for Tennessee's Medicaid program, said that his state declined Lilly's offer to implement the program in exchange for placing Zyprexa on its preferred-drug list.Beshara said the offer was rejected because the potential savings were uncertain and because the program was offered on the basis that the state would not receive rebates for placing the drug on its preferred list, as is common industry practice.

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