NY Pharma Sales Biz Head Cops To $45M Health Fraud Scheme ...

https://www.law360.com/.../ny-pharma-sales-biz-head-cops-to-45m-health-fraud-sche...

11 hours ago - A former pharmaceutical sales representative on Wednesday admitted to organizing a $45 million scheme to rip off private and federal insurers by persuading their plan participants to bill them for compounded drugs that weren't medically necessary, the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Supplements exploit consumer ignorance

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-17 hours ago

The reality is: the shots are called by the supplement industry, and Australian community pharmacy has rarely demonstrated its conformity to the higher standards of ... in-store, online and catalogue promotion of remedies, supplements and concepts that are unscientific, anti-scientific, pseudoscientific and outright fraud.

DEA creates new resource to help distributors avoid oversupplying opioids

FEB 14 (WASHINGTON)

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has launched a new tool to assist drug manufacturers and distributors with their regulatory obligations under the Controlled Substances Act. This new resource is an example of the many ways DEA is working collaboratively with its 1.73 million registrants to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States.

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Rutledge Praises White House's Recommendation on PBMs ...

https://arkansasag.gov/.../rutledge-praises-white-houses-recommendation-on-pbms/

19 hours ago - Says, 'prescription reimbursement rates dropped lower than pharmacy purchase costs'. LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge commends the White House's Reforming Biopharmaceutical Pricing at Home and Abroad report, which calls for decreasing the concentration ofPharmacy Benefit Managers ...

Detroit pharmacist suspended after being convicted of $6.2 million ...

https://www.metrotimes.com/.../detroit-pharmacist-suspended-after-being-convicted-o...

2 hours ago - Detroit pharmacist suspended after being convicted of $6.2 million health care and wirefraud. Posted By Alysa Zavala-Offman on Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:33 PM. click to enlarge. Shutterstock. Back in October 2017, Detroit pharmacist Imad Hussein Soueid was convicted of stealing nearly $6.2 million from health care ...