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Drug Channels News Roundup, April 2022: 340Boom, 340B Profits for Pharmacies & PBMs, Fixing Insulin, Walgreens’ Robots, and Doctors’ Day

Drug Channels

Glaucomflecken helps UnitedHealthcare celebrate Doctors’ Day! Next week, I'll be live and in-person at Asembia's Specialty Pharmacy Summit. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2022 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. You can also find my daily posts at @DrugChannels on Twitter , where I have more than 13,800 followers.

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Do Plan Sponsors Understand How Their PBMs Make Money?

Drug Channels

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing with a subtle and not-at-all pejorative title: The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in Prescription Drug Markets Part II: Not What the Doctor Ordered. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2023 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. Read on for what I say.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, November 2020: Rebate Rule Redux, MFN (maybe), Amazon’s Pharmacy Customers, Drug Spending, GPO M&A, and RxTrace

Drug Channels

In this issue: Rebate rule redux Most Favored Nation and healthcare benchmarking Amazon’s pharmacy customer opportunity Drug spending realities updated GPO consolidation Plus, I congratulate Dirk Rodgers of RxTrace on his retirement. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2020 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. to 1:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

In 2006, the FDA amended its final rule to add phenylephrine bitartrate (an effervescent formulation) to phenylephrine hydrochloride as GRASE over-the-counter nasal decongestant products included in that final monograph. Another meta-analysis was conducted by industry in 2007, which came to the opposite conclusion.

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Guest Post – Fraudulent Joinder Of Defendant With No Connection To The Plaintiff Cannot Forestall Foray To Zantac MDL

Drug & Device Law

That issue, in turn, involves product identification (another problem in MDLs) and a pointer for pharmacies that want to avoid being involved in pharmaceutical litigation. That manufacturer had relinquished all of its rights to Zantac in December 2006 – eight years before plaintiff began using it in 2014.