Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy and Mark Rubin--I hope someone from the Florida Board of Pharmacy is Paying Attention

I have written about this topic before here but readers will want to read this information.  Maybe the Florida Board of Pharmacy will finally take action about Royal Palm Compounding Pharmacy, LLC and Mark Rubin.  Here is more information to be considered.

Mark Rubin had a small community pharmacy in Boca Raton (Express Care Pharmacy) that did everything (regular drugs, durable medical equipment (bedside commodes, etc) and some limited compounding. He sold that pharmacy (and transferred the patient account info) to either a CVS or a Publix pharmacy. 

- Mark Rubin then started the 1st Royal Palm Specialty Pharmacy in Wellington, FL (a part of Palm Beach County known as Royal Palm Beach). This pharmacy was located in a non-descript "office building" with no obvious sign that it was a pharmacy, no direct patient walkthrough (they did exclusive mail orders to physician and veterinarian office and/or patient homes). This is the modus operandi of a rogue compounding pharmacy (e.g. KRS Global Biotechnology d/b/a GBTRx Pharmacy). The pharmacy will use aggressive sales tactics by holding exhibiting booths at national conferences such as the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M); employ sales reps on a national basis whose income is based almost exclusively on commission; will tout to prescribers (doctors, veterinarians, etc) the "profit-making potential" of prescribing/dispensing/reselling compounded drugs to their patients (i.e. GBTRx's PowerPoint presentation "Compounding Pharmacy: Gateway to Enhancing Revenue"); they will sell compounded drugs to physicians for further resell/dispensing to their patients (which is in direct violation of Federal and State laws/rules such as Rule 64B6-27.700(2), Florida Administrative Code); they will engage in split-fee/patient-brokering agreements with prescribers that restrict the patients' free choice of pharmacy (patient pays physician for services including medication, physician faxes order to pharmacy, pharmacy drop ships drugs to patient, pharmacy bills physician a lower "wholesale price" for the drugs, both prescriber and pharmacy make $$$ by charging patient inflated costs of medication because he/she is stuck using a  pharmacy that exploits them for financial gain; and will tout certain drugs as safe and effective for certain conditions despite evidence that these drugs are not effective, and not even absorbed into the body (e.g. Sublingual HCG for weight loss).