Doctor gets 10 years for operating 'pill mill' disguised as wellness center

WSMV Nashville-6 hours ago

A "pill mill" is a term used by investigators to describe a doctor, clinic or pharmacythat is prescribing or dispensing narcotics inappropriately or for non-medical ...

Does importing pharmaceuticals make sense?

Employee Benefit Adviser-9 hours ago

Pharmacy costs are out of control and employers, employees and benefit advisers are demanding creative solutions. One of the recent strategies available to ...

California insurance commissioner urges Department of Justice to ...

MD Linx (press release)-13 hours ago

Insurers would have difficulty using CVS's pharmacy benefit manager, CVS-Caremark. CVS currently provides PBM services to 94 million plan beneficiaries ...

DOJ should block CVS-Aetna merger: Calif. insurance regulator
American Medical Association-5 hours ago

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Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleads guilty for role in multi-million dollar compounding pharmacy scheme

Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleads guilty for role in pharmacy scheme

WDAM-TV-5 hours ago

A Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court for his role in a multi-million dollar pharmacy scheme. Court documents show Brantley 

Auction scheduled today for Family Pharmacy assets

Springfield Business Journal-9 hours ago

Auction scheduled today for Family Pharmacy assets ?Mike BY: Mike Cullinan, Reportermcullinan@sbj.net. Posted 8/3/18. The qualifying bids are being 

Worldwide blood pressure medicine recall expanding

WJBF-TV-8 hours ago

“The FDA expanded the recall to three new manufacturers,” said pharmacist Erick Engel of Raleigh's Wellness and Compounding pharmacy. As a result, he said ...

Kauffman warrant reveals compounding, blood testing fraud ..."In what is described in the warrant as a “pyramid scheme,” the drugs would cost Central Rexall $10 a dose, but they would charge the insurance company about $6,000, then split the profits with a recruiter."

Kauffman warrant reveals compounding, blood testing fraud ...

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...compounding.../article_a1e22483-443b-55c1-b...

5 hours ago - “Effectively you're referring patients to compounding, and if the care is unnecessary, it's fraud,” he said. And as soon as a doctor receives money for referring a patient to medically unnecessary treatment, a kickback, it's what Frankford called a “slam dunk” for prosecutors.

Pa. High Court to Consider Duty to Defend in Alleged Accidental ...

Law.com-6 hours ago

Mutual Benefit Insurance v. Haver, 725 A.2d 743 (Pa. 1999), involved a suit against a pharmacist, Joseph Haver, for selling prescription pain killers and sleeping ...

Oklahoma health board approves new medical marijuana rules

Cherokee Phoenix-1 hour ago

... a ban on the sale of smokable pot and requirements that a pharmacist be in every dispensary and that women of “childbearing age” undergo a pregnancy test.

Oklahoma Board of Health amends Rx pot rules

NewsOK.com-12 hours ago

The new rules eliminated two last-minute amendments, which banned the sale of smokable marijuana and required dispensaries to hire pharmacists