Pharmacists Fight for Reimbursement Rates

KNWA-18 hours ago

BELLA VISTA, Ark. - Some pharmacies across the state are losing money due to what they consider to be a lack of regulation between insurance providers and drug manufacturers. Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson called a special session of the Arkansas legislature to address the concern of low reimbursement rates to ...

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Bathurst pharmacist to pay $17000 for texting private information ...

CBC.ca-4 hours ago

A Bathurst pharmacist who was caught texting information about a patient to someone outside that person's "circle of care" has been sanctioned for professional misconduct. Pharmacist Diane Roy was suspended Oct. 3, 2016, from her job at the Bathurst Jean Coutu drugstore after the allegation surfaced. Then, on Nov.

Coordinating prescription refills in Mississippi is about to get easier

Jackson Clarion Ledger-Feb 25, 2018

For some patients in Mississippi, being prescribed several medications means three, four or more trips to the pharmacy each month. That could change under a bill that legislators sent to the governor last week. The legislation would require insurance companies to cover partial subscription refills for the purpose of ..

Express Scripts among pharmacy benefit firms included in opioid ...

St. Louis Business Journal-10 hours ago

Express Scripts is one of five pharmacy benefits management firms that have been named as defendants in a South Texas lawsuit about the opioid crisis. The suit, filed in Webb County, Texas, in January, was absorbed earlier this month into an opioid lawsuit in Ohio that is aggregating related claims from across the country ...

A South Texas county drags PBMs into nationwide lawsuit over ...
Highly Cited-STAT-14 hours ago

Pharmacy benefits managers in crosshairs of latest opioid lawsuit

BenefitsPro-3 hours ago

Pharmacy benefit managers are being targeted by a lawsuit filed by Webb County, in South Texas, charging that PBMs enabled the opioid crisis and profited from the sale of the drugs that fueled it, according to a lawyer who represents the county. Stat News reports that not only does this suit, filed in January, target PBM

Essential Read!! Pew Report: State Oversight of Drug Compounding Major progress since 2015, but opportunities remain to better protect patients

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Patient Care America Facing Charges Related To Kickback Scheme ...

Morningside Maryland Site (press release) (blog)-9 hours ago

Florida – The United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Diabetic Care Rx LLC d/b/a Patient Care America (PCA), a compounding pharmacy located in Pompano Beach, Florida, alleging that the pharmacy paid illegal kickbacks to induce prescriptions for compounded drugs reimbursed by TRICARE, the ...

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Texas lethal injection drugs

Texas Tribune-8 hours ago

The lawsuit dated back to 2013, when multiple death row inmates sued the Texas prison system claiming its lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional, in part based on the drugs used in executions. Texas uses pentobarbital compounded at a pharmacy in secret to put inmates to death. The inmates claimed that the lack of ...

Prescription for Fraud: Government Enforcement Activities in ...

The National Law Review-59 minutes ago

On October 18, 2017, a Mississippi physician was charged with health care fraud for writing prescriptions for medically unnecessary compounded medications. This is the latest – though certainly not the last – example of the Department of Justice's efforts to combat fraud within the TRICARE program. From California to ...

Pew, NABP Report: State Alignment With Compounding Best ...

Inside Health Policy-3 hours ago

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy in a report released Monday (Feb. 26) praise states for implementing what they believe are best practices in overseeing compounding, but they say more can be done to increase inspection frequency and develop a risk-based inspection ...