Thursday, February 27, 2014

Pharmacist must return $1 million to Medicare for unapproved drugs from abroad

— A local pharmacist owes Medicare $1 million after getting caught filling cancer prescriptions with drugs illegally purchased abroad.
According to a statement released by the United State’s attorney’s office, licensed pharmacist William Burdine, owner of the Alvarado Medical Plaza Pharmacy in San Diego, ordered drugs like Avastin and Rituxin from Quality Specialty Products of Canada and used them to mix infusion solutions “without advising the doctors that the drugs came from abroad and were not approved for use in the United States
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