Pharmacy

Fifteen drugmakers will pay the state of Illinois $242 million to settle allegations they published inflated average wholesale price information to increase Medicaid reimbursements, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Oct. 28. 

The FDA may create a rating system for drugmakers' manufacturing facilities as a strategy to combat drug shortages, according to STAT. 

Raley's Supermarkets plans to close 27 in-store pharmacies in California and Nevada.

Illinois may change its state pharmacy regulations to require more breaks and lighter workloads for pharmacists in an effort to promote safer drug dispensing, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The CEO of Insys Therapeutics has stepped down from as the embattled drugmaker continues to wind down operations under bankruptcy protection, according to The Phoenix Business Journal. 

Walgreens plans to close its in-store health clinics to cut costs and will look to outside companies to provide medical services in its stores, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

In an effort to cut costs, an undisclosed number of employees were laid off from Walgreens' corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., according to CNBC. 

Some Democratic lawmakers have begun arguing that slightly less biomedical innovation may be worth significantly reduced drug prices, according to STAT.

The Chronic Disease Foundation and the Patient Access Network Foundation paid $6 million to settle claims they helped drugmakers pay kickbacks to Medicare patients, according to STAT. 

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking pharmacy leaders in the last week.