The Department of Veterans Affairs is deploying AI-based enhancements to its pharmacy module alongside the rollout of its modernized EHR, according to an Oct. 5 GovCIO Media & Research report. The module includes an AI transcription agent to help clinical…

Plenful, the leading AI automation platform for pharmacy teams, is ready with Rebate Intelligence. The solution gives covered entities an automated way to submit and reconcile rebates under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot…

Most patients with advanced pancreatic cancer treated with daraxonrasib will see the drug lose its effect, and researchers are starting to identify why, according to a Sept. 30 report in The New York Times. The FDA approved Revolution Medicines’ daraxonrasib…

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health nearly doubled the share of discharged patients leaving with prescriptions in hand. Then it made enrollment automatic. The system flipped its Meds to Beds program from opt-in to opt-out in Epic this year after pushing capture…

The FDA has approved pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca, Eli Lilly) for adults with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma with no known 17p deletion. The Oct. 2 approval was based on BRUIN CLL-313, a trial involving 282 patients randomized…

CMS opened its Medicare Part D Claims Data 340B Repository Oct. 1 for voluntary data submissions, ahead of a proposed Jan. 1, 2027, deadline when submissions would become mandatory for 340B covered entities and their third-party administrators. Here are four…

HRSA announced Oct. 1 that it has approved 10 drugmakers to participate in a revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program, which will replace the traditional upfront 340B discount with a post-sale rebate structure for a limited set of drugs starting…

Becker’s asked pharmacy executives from hospitals and health systems, along with academic medical centers and universities across the U.S. to share what trends they deem dangerous. The 14 executives featured in this article are all speaking at Becker’s Healthcare 3rd…

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit Oct. 1 against pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Optum, alleging the companies’ formulary and rebate practices substantially contributed to the opioid epidemic in the state over more than two…

Medication management used to be pharmacy’s job. Increasingly, it’s an enterprise leadership issue — and health systems that still treat it as a departmental function are already behind. For most of my career, pharmacy leaders and clinical teams built the…