Local pharmacy faces $5K in fines for violations | Ocala.com
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
The Florida Department of Health has fined an Ocala pharmacy $5,000 and ordered it to stop making sterile compounded drugs after state investigators found a slew of violations at the West Silver Springs Boulevard business.
Part 3: The price of pain: Indictments allege a massive compound cream scam: Prosecutors in the Orange County District Attorney's office call it one of the largest cases they've taken on: 20,000 exhibits, 15 defendants and more than $100 million in alleged overbilling in an alleged workers' compensation fraud scheme centered around compound creams and allegations of over $25 million in kickbacks to doctors, chiropractors and pharamcists to write, fill and bill for compounded pain creams (includes FBI recording, a chart of the players involved, pictures from the compounding pharmacy, and part of transcript with emails)
This is the third in a series on the compound cream industry. You can read Part One here and Part Two here.
Prosecutors in the Orange County District Attorney's office call it one of the largest cases they've taken on: 20,000 exhibits, 15 defendants and more than $100 million in alleged overbilling in an alleged workers' compensation fraud scheme centered around compound creams.
An Inland Empire businessman, Kareem Ahmed, is accused of masterminding the alleged scam. Prosecutors say he paid a dozen doctors, chiropractors and pharmacists a total of $25 million in kickbacks in exchange for writing, filling and billing for large numbers of compound cream prescriptions.
KPCC first reported on the indictments by the Orange County Grand Jury in June. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana on Friday.
What makes this case unusual was the volume of business, according to Assistant District Attorney Scott Zidbeck. more
Advisors Give FDA Nod To Put 26 Drugs On Non-Compounding List
Thursday, 26 February 2015
An advisory committee this week concurred with FDA's suggestion that 26 drugs be listed as unsafe or not effective for compounding, firming up a highly anticipated updated list that is key to the agency's implementation of the new compounding law.
FDA Can't Track Whether Pharmacists with traditional compounding facilities Compound For Specific Uses since they are not required to register with the agency
Friday, 27 February 2015
It would be tough for FDA to track whether a traditional compounding facility, which is not required to register with the agency, is limiting its compounding of drugs to specific indications, said an FDA official at a Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday (Feb. 24).
Fraud On Tricare By Compounding Company Complaints and Reviews
Fraud increases medical payments for Tricare members
As a Tricare member, you may get a phone call from someone (In my case someone from India) who says he is with Tricare and he understands that I have ankle sores He wants to put me in touch with a compounding company that can make the exact medicine combination needed to cure my sores. He connects me to a lady who seems knowledgeable about my case until I finally get from her that she actually... Read more ›
Was this review helpful?0 0 Second Question of the Day February 28, 2015 What are the rules and regulations regarding compounding "cosmetic products?" Are companies and corporations that spend the time to follow the FDA rules and regulations regarding cosmetics going to take action against compounding pharmacies that are replicating their products, mass producing and marketing these copies of products?
Quality of compounded bevacizumab varies
FEB 20, 2015 by Carl Danzig, MD
Samples from various U.S. compounding pharmacies showed significant variability and lower concentrations than bevacizumab acquired directly from Genentech, although the clinical implications of this are not yet known.
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