Saturday, December 2, 2017

Texas: Peñitas pharmacy who conspired with a former Pharr city commissioner to defraud a health insurance company pleaded guilty to fraud charges

Peñitas pharmacy owner pleads guilty to fraud charges

Brownsville Herald-12 hours ago
McALLEN — The owner of a Peñitas pharmacy who conspired with a former Pharr city commissioner to defraud a health insurance company pleaded guilty to fraud charges Friday. Omar Espericueta, 45, the owner of Peñitas Family Pharmacy, pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud Blue Cross Blue Shield of ...

Pharmacy giant CVS is near a deal to merge with Aetna

Washington Post-22 hours ago
Pharmacy giant CVS Health and Aetna, the nation's third-largest health insurer, are making progress toward a merger and could strike a deal by Monday, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The possible deal, which is still not certain to happen, could be one of the biggest health-care mergers of all time and ...

ACLU files suit to force Nebraska to provide death penalty records

Fremont Tribune-17 hours ago
The department has not made public either the supplier of the drugs or whether they came from a known drug manufacturer or a compounding pharmacy. It did say they were purchased in the United States. The state open-records law is clear that the government has to make available all documents that relate to public ..

12th person pleads guilty in compounding pharmacy scheme

Galloway Township man becomes 12th person to plea guilty in ...

Press of Atlantic City-14 hours ago
The prescriptions were faxed to the compounding pharmacy, which filled the prescriptions and billed the pharmacy benefits administrator. ... According to the information, the pharmacy benefits administrator paid the compounding pharmacy more than $50 million for compounded medications mailed to individuals in the ..

Friday, December 1, 2017

Amazon's Move Into Retail Pharmacy Could Put 10% of Industry ...

TheStreet.com-7 hours ago
These discussions suggest Amazon "could be taking on either pharmacy, drug distribution, or both," Morgan Stanley said. Amazon could enter the drug supply chain by opening a retail pharmacy, entering into contracts with generic drugmakers, working with branded manufacturers or building up a claims processing unit.
Amazon's Move Into RX Seems Likely
PYMNTS.com-8 hours ago

Dismissed in Florida: Former Compounding Pharmacy Sales ...

The National Law Review-7 minutes ago
On November 8, 2017, the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed a relator's non-intervened claims in United States ex rel. Stepe v. RS Compounding LLC for failure to satisfy the particularity requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b). Relator originally filed her complaint under seal on ..

Adamis Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Results of a ...

Nasdaq-2 hours ago
The Company's U.S. Compounding, Inc. (USC) subsidiary, which is registered as a drug compoundingoutsourcing facility under Section 503B of the U.S. Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act and the U.S. Drug Quality and Security Act, compounds sterile prescription drugs, and certain nonsterile drugs, to patients, physician clinics, ...

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Congress Isn’t Really Done With Health Care — Just Look At What’s In The Tax Bills By Julie Rovner DECEMBER 1, 2017