Point-of-care testing (POCT), or bedside testing is defined as medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of careâthat is, at the time and place of patient care.[1] This contrasts with the historical pattern in which testing was wholly or mostly confined to the medical laboratory, which entailed sending off specimens away from the point of care ...
Generic OxyContin would have cost 25 per cent of the price for the brand-name product, according to Tam. Consumers must spend $251.85 for 100 40-milligram tablets of OxyNEO and $442.84 for 100 80-milligram tablets. The price was the same for OxyContin.
Prescribed by a doctor, Oxy typically runs about $4 per 40 mg pill. The DEA's Wait said street prices for the drug are exponentially higher, ranging from 50 cents to $1 per milligram, with 40 mg tablets typically going for $24-40. Though recovery programs have been somewhat effective in weaning addicts off Oxy, the road is a long one, according to addiction specialist Dr. Kenneth Gheyser, who practices at the Spencer Recovery Center in Laguna Beach, California.