Monday, January 14, 2019


House Democrats Announce Sweeping Investigation of Drug Pricing

KTLA-11 hours ago
... and trying to do away with industry practices that allow manufacturers, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to profit at the consumer's expense.

Pharmacies Offer Deferred Payments During Shutdown

Atlantic Highlands Herald-15 hours ago
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - Bayshore Pharmacy Cards & Gifts and Middletown Family Pharmacy of Belford are offering patients who are federal employees .

Why California pharmacies are rejecting some prescriptions for pain ...

Sacramento Bee-5 hours ago
Doctors around California are complaining that the state did not send them notice of a Jan. 1 change in prescription forms and that pharmacies are rejecting ..

Lawmakers to consider more oversight of pharmacy-benefits middlemen

Indianapolis Business Journal (blog)-8 hours ago
Pharmacy-benefits managers, the powerful middlemen who help select which drugs are covered for patients with insurance and negotiate discounts with ...

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

Prescription drug pricing strategy: Where is the money going?

Boston 25 News-13 hours ago
Historically my average revenue per fill has been going down down down,” said a Boston-area pharmacist who wanted to remain anonymous because he fears

Disqualified after errors, going to work intoxicated

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-9 hours ago
This proprietor had told the pharmacist to leave, saying he could not work in this condition, but the pharmacist became “agitated and aggressive” and security .

It's Not Business as Usual as FDA Works Only on “Imminent Threats”;

It's Not Business as Usual as FDA Works Only on “Imminent Threats”

Quality Assurance & Food Safety-3 hours ago
Given the prolonged shutdown and compounding risk as time accrues; FDA is working to operationalize additional activities that exceed what we've done in past ...

Dearborn entrepreneur/Pharmacist charged in $1M health care fraud

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2018/12/31/feds-charge-dearborn-entrepreneur-1-million-dollar-health-care-fraud-scheme/2448970002/?fbclid=IwAR3JYLnbux_PsAewx3jsVAh76At0jVOdzEx9KGzAPnvbYO1JVGKGqaV1GAU

Mass drug overdose in California kills 1 person and leaves 12 more hospitalized By Chris Boyette and Holly Yan, CNN


https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/health/california-mass-drug-overdose/index.html

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Woman sues doctor, pharmacy for accidentally prescribing abortion ...

Lifesite-5 hours ago
ATASCADERO, California, January 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A California woman is taking her doctor and pharmacy to court for allegedly writing and filling an ...