Friday, January 20, 2017

Walgreens to pay $50 mln to resolve US prescription kickback case

Reuters-10 hours ago
... Bharara on Thursday, resolves a whistleblower lawsuit that the government joined related to the national pharmacy chain's Prescription Savings Club program ...

Showdown looms between CVS pharmacies and Texas Medicaid ...

Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com-16 hours ago
CVS continues to battle with the Texas Attorney General's office, which has accused some of the state’s largest pharmacies of cheating the Medicaid ...

Small Pharmacies Lose Class Cert. In Caremark Antitrust Row

Law360 (subscription)-7 hours ago
Law360, New York (January 19, 2017, 5:49 PM EST) -- A Pennsylvania federal district court on Wednesday denied certification to four class actions in ..

Column: The US Attorney's office is fighting opioid abuse

Tampabay.com (blog)-11 hours ago
After gathering evidence, we confronted a national pharmacy chain (CVS) and two national distributors (Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp.) with our findings.

Mystery fungus sparks NIH crisis, imperiling trials

Mystery fungus sparks NIH crisis, imperiling trials

Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com-16 hours ago
The discovery of fungus growing in two medicine vials in an NIH hospital pharmacy 19 months ago has ballooned into a management crisis, stalling medical