Legal News

Pharmacists dealing with Rxs for controlled substances have their lists of red flags and greens flags. Are they now showing the white flag, as well?

Title II of the DQSA is the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. As of January 1, 2015, new changes and mandates will move all members of the supply chain closer to becoming mandatory oversight partners with FDA.

A New York City pharmacist was recently charged with stealing 193,000 painkiller pills worth an estimated $5.6 million on the black market.

Rite Aid recently agreed to pay $498,250 to settle charges that some of its California pharmacists frequently did not provide patient consultations required by law.

The Supplemental Bulletin expands upon previous guidance, focusing particularly on disease funds and legitimate copay waivers for prescribed medications.

A federal report credits Florida’s crackdown on pill mills and doctor shoppers with reducing deaths from prescription-drug overdoses by nearly one quarter.

The California State Supreme Court recently upheld a ruling that allows healthcare plans serving the poor to ignore what it costs pharmacies to obtain drugs when establishing Medi-Cal reimbursement rates.

A Utah pharmacist recently pled no contest to charges he filled a fraudulent prescription with M&Ms instead of pain pills, according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune.

A federal appeals court has ruled in Walgreens’ favor regarding a pharmacist who was dismissed after shooting at armed robbers with a legally concealed handgun.

A pharmacist must have a valid license issued by the board of the state in which he wishes to practice. New pharmacy graduates need to investigate individual state pharmacy board requirements.

A former West El Paso, Texas pharmacist will represent himself in a retrial on charges he fraudulently billed insurers for prescriptions never dispensed and sold drugs to an undercover federal agent, according to a published report.

A Pennsylvania hospital pharmacist has been arraigned on charges she stole nearly 5,000 oxycodone pills by replacing them with Tylenol, according to a published report.

Pharmacies often overlook their licensing requirements or fail to discover the extent to which a license is required for a particular activity. Not good.

A federal judge has blocked Massachusetts’ attempt to ban the controversial new painkiller Zohydro ER, which law enforcement officials, politicians, and some healthcare officials fear will dramatically increase opioid overdose deaths.

Things aren't as simple as the DEA would have us believe.

CVS Caremark Corp. faces as much as $29 million in fines associated with 37,000 prescription painkillers that are missing from four of its California stores, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

After pleading guilty to unlawful importation of drugs, a San Diego pharmacist has been ordered to repay Medicare $1 million.William Burdine, 65, owner of the Alvarado Medical Plaza Pharmacy in San Diego, was also sentenced to eight months of home confinement, 240 hours of community service, five years of probation, and a $10,000 fine.

In the wake of the recent Rite Aid HIV settlement, pharmacists face a new Catch 22.

CMS is proposing a modified interpretation of the existing non-interference provisions that would remove any limitation on CMS’ regulation of the relationship between pharmacies and plan sponsors.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has created a prescription drug abuse tip line in Georgia that will allow healthcare professionals and the public to anonymously report Rx abuse.

A Christian pharmacist in Tennessee has filed a federal lawsuit against Walgreens claiming the chain fired him for refusing to sell the Plan B morning after pill.

Boehringer Ingelheim is facing lawsuits in the United States over claims that Pradaxa, a blood-thinner used to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation, causes severe and fatal bleeding.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Michigan pharmacy CEO and several of its employees in a $60 million fraud case in which drugs previously dispensed to nursing homes and adult foster care homes were restocked and resold.

An overly aggressive government is making a tough job tougher, but the pharmacist's first ethical concern must be for the patient.

More than 40,000 domain names may be connected to online pharmacies at any given time.

Drug Topics provides special coverage on pharmacy crimes involving the painkiller oxycodone. Discover what has happened recently in the news and current statistics of oxycodone trafficking offenses.

NABP effort seeks worldwide protection for consumers and users of pharmacies online.

Since the NECC-triggered outbreak of fungal meningitis in 2012, FDA has responded aggressively, inspected almost 70 pharmacies. Now it is supported by a new law, the DQSA, and many new questions arise.