The Jardiance upper payment limit, based on the Medicare maximum fair price, is set to take effect in 2027.
A newly-released March 2025 Washington State Department of Health video shows investigators raiding Aequita, where “cutting corners [was seen] at nearly every level of its operation.”
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.
The doctor allegedly bought the unapproved drugs through a middleman and relabeled them before selling them to patients.
CVS Health’s Caremark deal mirrors the deal the FTC struck with Express Scripts last month, a person familiar with the case told Reuters.
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
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.
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.
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.
For a pretty dead policy idea, bulk drug importation has had a lot of news lately. Get the update!