CMS Wants To Let Medicare Plans Restrict Potential Drug Abusers To Single Pharmacy

Key CMS and officials from the HHS Office of Inspector General on Monday (June 24) recommended that Congress let plans restrict high-risk Medicare beneficiaries from using multiple pharmacies to curb "doctor shopping" and reduce prescription drug abuse, a policy that some Medicaid programs and commercial plans use for beneficiaries with "drug-seeking behavior."

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Pharmacy Practice News: "In Operating Room, a Switch To Prefilled Syringes Pays Off" in Puerto Rico

June 27, 2013

San Juan, Puerto Rico—Incorporating standardized, ready-to-use anesthesia medications in the operating rooms helped one hospital in St. Louis significantly increase proper labeling of medicines and reduce medication waste. Click here

DR. MOHLER: A true story of greed, feisty pregnant women and the FDA doing the right thing | PostIndependent.com

DR. MOHLER: A true story of greed, feisty pregnant women and the FDA doing the right thing | PostIndependent.com

Pharmacy Practice News - Canadian Chemo Dilutions Hint at U.S. Vulnerabilities

Pharmacy Practice News - Canadian Chemo Dilutions Hint at U.S. Vulnerabilities

Some patients not yet notified of possibly tainted shots -including people in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas Jun. 27, 2013 6:27 PM

A month after a nationwide recall by a Tennessee drug compounder, 19 health facilities in three states have not yet notified all patients who were injected with a steroid that may have been contaminated with bacteria, fungus or both.

In a report issued Thursday, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the 19 facilities received methylprednisolone acetate from the Main Street Family Pharmacy in Newbern since Dec. 1, 2012.

Though the facilities lagging behind in notification were not identified, the CDC said that 10 are in Louisiana, eight in Texas and one in Arkansas, and that they either haven’t begun notifying patients or haven’t neared completion.

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