Monday, January 14, 2019

AHA submits legislative, regulatory recommendations to mitigate drug ...

Becker's Hospital Review-10 hours ago
... information on the quality of outsourcing facilities that compound drugs during a shortage, it said. Read the full news release here. More articles on pharmacy:

Pharmacy, PE Fund Back Judge's Trim Of $70M FCA Suit

Law360-6 hours ago
Law360 (January 14, 2019, 5:22 PM EST) -- A compounding pharmacy and its ... medically unnecessary prescriptions for expensive compounded drugs that 
4 hours ago - Allergan's Attack On Drug Compounding Falls Flat.
5 days ago - Cheryl McGrath was convicted of health care fraud and federal tax violations in U.S. ... Mascio, a licensed pharmacist and the owner of Family Medical Pharmacy .
6 days ago - Also in December a federal jury found Pharmacist Tamar Tatarian, 39, of Pasadena, California guilty of a Medicare fraud scheme after she billed Medicare $1.3 ...

$21 million paid to 2012 meningitis outbreak victims

The Tennessean-Jan 11, 2019
... following their conviction on racketeering, mail fraud and related charges. Cadden was president and part-owner, while Chin was a supervising pharmacist.

Pharmacists could help 'dire' GP situation

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-10 hours ago
An anonymous doctor has told media more than 200 people are being turned away from GP surgeries a day in Ballarat alone… but pharmacists want to help.

What you said: Pharmacist recognition, workloads

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-Jan 12, 2019
Last week we heard from the Pharmacy Council of NSW about the pressures some pharmacists are under with “extreme workloads”, such as high script .

Pharmacists at risk of prosecution under DH's shortages solution

Chemist+Druggist-44 minutes ago
Amending regulations to allow pharmacists to dispense an alternative in cases of medicines shortages could result in pharmacists breaking the law, sector