Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx to recoup $16 million in alleged overcharges, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
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Pharmacy school teaches students the ins and outs of medicine, but far less about how to be an effective pharmacy leader.
While the amount of opioids prescribed per person decreased between 2006 and 2017, the average duration per opioid prescription increased, according to a new study published in JAMA.
Legacy Pharmaceuticals recalled 43 lots of losartan March 15, becoming the latest drugmaker to recall the blood pressure medication due to the detection of a potentially carcinogenic impurity.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by six pharmacies that claimed Express Scripts violated health privacy laws and poached customers, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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A proposed bill in New Jersey would ban insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from charging a higher copay than the cash price of a medication, according to New Jersey 101.5, a local radio station.
Two co-pharmacy owners were sentenced to 10 years in prison each for creating a bogus pharmacy to obtain and distribute OxyContin and other prescription narcotics to black-market customers, according to NBC Los Angeles.
Merck, the sole supplier of a critical bladder cancer drug, is restricting shipments of the treatment as demand outpaces supply.