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The FDA speaks up about AFPs and drug importation
Is personal drug importation legal in the context of alternative funding programs? The FDA says no.
Are self-funded health plans allowed to import medicine because of “Section 804” or “Florida’s importation plan”? Also, no.
[...]April 6, 2026: Over 200 patients bought unapproved imported peptides from a now-indicted Utah physician
The doctor allegedly bought the unapproved drugs through a middleman and relabeled them before selling them to patients.
[...]March 30, 2026: A second pharmacy benefit manager settles suit with the FTC over insulin price inflation.
CVS Health’s Caremark deal mirrors the deal the FTC struck with Express Scripts last month, a person familiar with the case told Reuters.
[...]March 24, 2026: Physician sentenced for administering expired injectables in long-running fraud scheme
A federal judge in Alaska sentenced rheumatologist Dr. Claribel Tan to six-and-a-half years in prison for administering substandard drugs to patients while fraudulently billing insurers
[...]Using pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces? Read this Suspicious Sales Surveillance Report
Online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces help with inventory management, but they also require vigilance because they carry a higher risk of being exploited by criminals selling black market medicines.
[...]Counterfeit drug crimes typically earn light sentences. How did Safe Chain’s co-owners, the Boyd brothers, end up with 18 and 20 years?
Wire fraud charges drove much higher penalties than the shipping of unsafe medicine into the supply chain, and the Boyds’ sentences were based on the government proving high-dollar, deliberate fraud.
[...]March 17, 2026: Safe Chain Solutions executives jailed for selling secondhand HIV meds
A federal judge sentenced brothers Charles and Patrick Boyd to a combined 38 years in prison for running a nationwide scheme that sold counterfeit and diverted HIV medications to U.S. pharmacies.
[...]March Drug Importation Madness
For a pretty dead policy idea, bulk drug importation has had a lot of news lately. Get the update!
[...]Safe Chain owners Charles and Patrick Boyd sentenced for nationwide black market HIV drug scheme
federal judge in Florida sentenced Charles and Patrick Boyd to a cumulative 38 years in prison. The brothers owned Safe Chain Solutions, a Cambridge, Maryland-based drug distributor at the center of a diversion ring that endangered the health of American patients by selling U.S. pharmacies over 85,00 counterfeit bottles of secondhand HIV medicine worth more than $250 million.
[...]March 10, 2026: Fake cancer drug distributor sentenced to almost four years in federal prison
Sanjay Kumar got 43 months for selling counterfeit Keytruda. PSM wrote federal agencies about a Super Bowl ad promoting diagnostic tests and compounded medicines with false claims.
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