Showing posts with label Russellville Pharmacies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russellville Pharmacies. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Some Chatter About OPC, Franklin, Russellville in Alabama

There is a lot of chatter going on on the Cafepharma message board, including mention of a pharmacist working in Russellville at the time of the FBI raid in August who was found dead of a gunshot. To view this message board, click here

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Franklin, Sheffield and Russellville Compounding Pharmacies In Alabama: Will these Supposedly Federal Health Care Fraud Investigations Now Become More in Light of the Meningitis Outbreak?


In August 2012, numerous agencies, including the FBI, DEA, FDA, Alabama's attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Unit and the Alabama Board of Pharmacy, here and here executed a search warrant on three Alabama phamacies, Franklin, Sheffield, and Russellville.  All three specialized in compounding drugs.  More specifically, all three were involved in compounding pain medication cremes.  At the time of the search, sources reported that it was not the compounded drugs in questions but the business practices of these pharmacies.  See here  The investigating agencies were seen carrying out boxes of documents that were confiscated from the facilities.  These documents were then supposedly taken to the FBI's Birmingham office for review.  The question of ownership of these pharmacies, which was previously reported on, see here, here and here  is still being reported on:

WHNT News 19 has schooled that Rodney Logan, a owners of both a Sheffield and Russellville pharmacies, was during one time business partners with Tim Aaron, who owns Franklin Pharmacy.
In a “Healthy Horizons” publication, an ad printed in Oct of 2010, showed ‘Optimal Pain Control’ as being a multiplication of Russellville Pharmacy, owned by Rodney Logan.

Since that publication, OPC RX has altered hands, and annals uncover it is now listed as being operated on Mustang Drive in Russellville.
It’s a same residence inventory as Franklin Pharmacy, that is owned by Tim Aaron, and employs scarcely dual hundred people.
Since a businesses split, Rodney Logan has non-stop another multiplication to a Sheffield Pharmacy, Sheffield Expert Compounding.
In fact, according to cinema posted on a company’s Facebook page, a laboratory for blending a drugs was combined in a bureau space subsequent to Sheffield Pharmacy.
Source is here.  No arrest have been made at this point, and it can take years to review and indict large health care fraud cases. But in light of the recent meningitis scare will the agencies now be taking a look at other charges such as misbranding drugs.  This blog already questioned whether or not these pharmacies were "manufacturing" instead of compounding.  See here.  Especially since it employed more than 200 people.  See here



Sunday, August 26, 2012

Video News Report on Franklin and Russellville Pharmacies

Channel 48 news out of Alabama has a video news story regarding the searches at the Franklin  and Russellville Pharmacies,

Click here to watch video.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Franklin Pharmacy Suspending Its Compounding Operation in Russellville: It Employed Close ot 200 People

Closing of compounding center to affect many

Published 6:00am Saturday, August 18, 2012
When the state unemployment numbers were released Friday, Franklin County’s jobless claims for July held steady at 9.7 percent, just slightly above the 9.6 percent reported in June.
The county’s July rate represents 1,315 individuals, but that number is certain to rise on the heels of Thursday’s announcement that Franklin Pharmacy would be suspending its compounding operation in Russellville.
Though company officials have not commented publicly, several employees of the pharmacy confirmed Friday that they were sent home Thursday and told that the compounding operation would be closed. Close to 200 people were employed there and it is uncertain how many will remain.
The announcement was made one week after federal and state agencies raided Franklin Pharmacy and two others, Russellville Pharmacy and Sheffield Pharmacy.
To read remainder of article click
here

Thursday, August 9, 2012

FBI Search Three Compounding Pharmacies

Sources are reporting that the FBI, escorted employees from and searched Franklin Health Mart and Russellville Pharmacies in Russellville and Sheffield Pharmacy in Sheffield, Alabama, and began inventorying the drugs.  All three businesses are compounding pharmacies.   Russellville and Sheffield Pharmacies reportedly have the same owner, Rodney Logan.  Franklin Health-Mart Pharmacy is reportedly owned by Carrie Dearman and Mark Dearman. It's unknown at this time how the pharmacies are connected or if the search related to the compounding.

To read the news article, click here.
To see pictures of this story, click here.