…other developed economies (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom). The HHS analysis found that, on average, the…

If a patient presents a paper prescription for a controlled substance to a pharmacy and the pharmacy cannot fill it, the patient can take that prescription to another pharmacy. However,…

…a determination whether there is enough evidence to inspect the pharmacy in question.  The draft proposal gives FDA full inspection authority of a compounding pharmacy, but only if there is…

…stored within the hospital pharmacy and for each of the pharmacy’s satellite locations. Id. § 1715.65(g). The PICs of pharmacies that service “automated drug delivery systems” such as Pyxis machines,…

…law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. The 340B contract pharmacy dispute involves several manufacturers who are refusing to provide 340B discounts to covered entities if they requested…

…Canadian sellers from distributing drugs outside of Canada unless they have “reasonable grounds to believe that the distribution will not cause or exacerbate a shortage of the drug” in Canada….

…difficult it will be to pass the statutory hurdle and obtain FDA approval to import drugs from Canada, and also pointed out that Canada’s Minister of Health has issued an…

The law permitting the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada—Section 804 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC Act)—has been on the books for decades. After its…

…2019, Florida became the second state to pass a bill allowing for the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. (In May 2018, Vermont became the first state to pass this…

…The practitioner must then endorse and return within 5 days to the dispensing pharmacy the copy of the prescription that it received from the pharmacy.  The dispensing pharmacy must attach…

…the registration of Coconut Grove Pharmacy (“Coconut Grove”), like Gulf Med Pharmacy also in Florida, for its failure to resolve prescribing red flags and document such resolution. Coconut Grove Pharmacy;…

…Center Pharmacy v. Mukasey. In the early 1990s, FDA began asserting that the compounding of drugs without an NDA was unlawful.  FDA’s move spurred considerable controversy.  To resolve the dispute,…

…the VA, covered drug purchases under the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, authorized and paid for by the TRICARE Management Activity’s (“TMA’s”) Pharmacy Benefits Office, qualified for rebates to the FCPs….

On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud…

…either the patient’s pharmacy or the prescriber can submit a request for the drug to the Program Pharmacy.  Once the Program Pharmacy confirms eligibility, a separate prescription for the drug…