Ameritox
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| Private | |
| Industry | Urine Drug Monitoring |
| Founded | Midland, TX |
| Headquarters | Baltimore, MD, United States |
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Key people
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A. Scott Walton (CEO), Todd Garner (COO), Jay Zimmerman (Senior Vice President and Chief Laboratory Officer), Tony Pino (Senior Vice President, Managed Care), Mike Ziegler (Senior Vice President, Sales), Thomas Smith, M.D., (Chief Medical Officer), Barbara Senters, (Chief Compliance Officer) |
| Products | Rx Guardian, Rx Guardian CD |
| Website | http://www.ameritox.com |
Ameritox is a company that provides physicians with urine drug monitoring and reporting services. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the company also has a CLIA-certified laboratory in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ameritox offers urine drug testing and reporting services to help physicians determine if their chronic pain patients are taking their pain medications correctly. Physicians use this information to identify potential medication misuse and abuse, and make more informed decisions. Ameritox’s customer service and patient management support tools permit physicians to integrate medication monitoring into their practice.
Ameritox Ltd. was founded in 1996 in Midland, Texas as Universal Toxicology Laboratories (UTL), a federally certified drug testing facility and medical examiner toxicology laboratory.
UTL identified a growing need for a more detailed way of monitoring the use of long-term pain medications used by patients. The company became Ameritox Ltd. in 2003. Today, Ameritox claims to be the nation's largest provider of pain medication monitoring solutions for physicians.
Rx Guardian CD SM is now part of the Rx Guardian SM process. Rx Guardian CD SM features a unique reference database supported by a proprietary normalization algorithm. Patients’ normalized results are compared against the reference database, giving added confidence in assessing whether patients are taking their medications correctly.
In 2012, Ameritox launched the Rx Guardian INSIGHT Report, which, according to a press release, "provides a concise summary of the most important elements of a patient's medication monitoring results. It also helps clinicians assess a patient's medication adherence over time by showing a chronology of previous Rx Guardian CD(SM) standard scores."
Ameritox’s clinical research program investigates topics related to managing patients on chronic opioid therapy. Studies include:
This poster was presented at the American Pain Society's annual meeting and showed "a significant rate of potential non-adherence in the older population, supporting the need for routine urine drug monitoring in older adults in order to improve clinical decision making and enhance patient safety."
This study assessed the health economic burden of chronic opioid users and determined whether potential opioid regimen nonadherence is associated with increased healthcare costs. The study concludes that patients on chronic opioid therapy who were likely to be nonadherent to their prescription regimens, according to urine drug monitoring results, had significantly higher overall healthcare costs than patients who are likely adherent to their prescription regimen.
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