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EPA Addresses Challenges in Managing Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals
These three key EPA regulatory changes (2019) impact the daily responsibilities of environmental services teams and other health care workers.
FDA updates ibuprofen compounding guidance
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday revised its recent guidance for outsourcing facilities compounding certain ibuprofen oral suspension products.
AMA study: Pharmacy benefit manager market highly concentrated, integrated with insurers
The market for pharmacy benefit manager services is highly concentrated, with commercial insurers often sharing ownership in the PBM, according to the analysis.
FTC launches inquiry into prescription drug middlemen
The FTC will launch an inquiry into the prescription drug middleman industry.
FDA proposes changes to draft compounding guidance for hospital pharmacies
As recommended by the AHA, the Food and Drug Administration proposed revising 2016 draft guidance to allow hospital and health system pharmacies that are not outsourcing facilities to distribute compounded drug products to any health care facility in the same system without first receiving a valid prescription or order for an individual patient. Previously the guidance limited this allowance to facilities within a one-mile radius.
House committee report shines light on pharma’s pricing, business practices
Fourteen leading U.S. drug companies from 2016 to 2020 spent $577 billion on stock buybacks and dividends, $56 billion more than they spent on research and development over the same period, according to a report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
AHA urges regulators to prohibit certain health insurance pharmacy policies
Regulators should prohibit health insurers from preventing hospitals and physicians in their networks from directly acquiring and storing drugs used in patient care, according to a white paper released today by AHA.