Posts Tagged ‘pharmacy’
Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy Fires Executive Director
The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy fired its Executive Director, Chelsea Church, after state investigators acknowledged Church is the target of a bribery probe involving text messages with a Oklahoma State Health Department general counsel Julie Ezell, who was involved writing the state’s new medical marijuana rules. In the text messages, Church appears to have offered…
Read MoreDistributing Compounded Drugs to Colorado Veterinarians
In late 2017, the Colorado Board of Pharmacy (Board) sent notice to all facilities registered with the Board as nonresident pharmacies. The notification addressed the distribution of medications into Colorado. The notification states, in part, the following: “Colorado law and Board rule (CRS 12-42.5-118.5 and Board Rules 21.00.20(d)) allow a nonresident pharmacy (“Pharmacy”) to distribute…
Read MoreReimbursing Certain Pharmacists’ Services: A New Colorado Bill
Colorado House Bill 18-1112 (HB 18-1112) was approved by the Colorado State Legislature earlier this year and signed by Governor Hickenlooper on April 9, 2018. The Bill is set to take effect on August 8, 2018. HB 18-1112 requires a health benefit plan to provide coverage for health care services provided by a pharmacist if:…
Read More2018 Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act: Pharmacist and Pharmacy Rule Changes
Earlier this year, Arizona passed the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act (Act), a comprehensive, bipartisan bill aimed at combating the opioid epidemic. The new legislation addresses opioid treatment, opioid enforcement and oversight, opioid addiction and reversing opioid overdoses. Pharmacists and pharmacies must be aware of a few important rule changes slated to start April 26, 2018,…
Read MoreMcKesson Tries to Avoid Opioid Liability
Drug distributor McKesson filed paperwork in federal court stating that its $40 billion contract with the federal government — the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service — to deliver medications, including opioids, and other pharmacy products, should allow it to raise the government contractor defense to liability in the recent lawsuit filed by…
Read More‘The Pharmacy’ Shut Down by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy
A popular dessert and drink spot located outside of downtown Dallas, named ‘The Pharmacy’ was forced to close its doors amid a name dispute with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. ‘The Pharmacy,’ which opened last summer, recently received notification from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy that its name, “The Pharmacy” – violated the…
Read MorePharmacy Kiosks in Arizona
Patient convenience is the focus, but will pharmacy kiosks save patients valuable time since they can now skip going into their pharmacy to pick up a prescription? Medavail Technologies is planning to install around 40 pharmacy kiosks — essentially vending machines for medications — around Arizona. Patient’s will receive their prescription in the form of…
Read MoreMaine’s Prescription Monitoring Program and Veterinarians
Maine State Senator Jim Hamper of Lincoln County has proposed a controversial bill (LD 1730) that would remove veterinarians from the Maine’s Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program (Prescription Monitoring Program). Hamper is proposing to change the definition of ‘Prescriber,” under the Prescription Monitoring Program which in its current form, includes veterinarians – ‘“Prescriber” means a licensed…
Read MoreFDA Reiterates Its Concerns on Risks Associated with Kratom
The FDA announced the voluntary destruction and recall of large volumes of kratom-containing dietary supplements manufactured and distributed nationwide by Divinity Products Distribution. Divinity also agreed to stop selling all products containing kratom. The FDA is also strongly encouraging all other companies that sale products containing kratom intended for human consumption to stop manufacturing and…
Read MorePharmacy Wholesalers Allegedly Sent over 12 Million Opioid Doses to a Single West Virginia Pharmacy
West Virginia has been hit hard by the opioid crisis and data shows the death rate from opioids in 2016 was 52 victims for every 100,000 residents. New House of Energy and Commerce Committee documents allege that between 2006-2014 pharmacy wholesalers McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health and others shipped over 12 million doses of opioids…
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