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Pharmacists Can Now Dispense Mifepristone Under Updated REMS Program

Birth Control Pharmacist

Certification Requirements Here are some of the most important steps to the certification process that pharmacists should know about. Record the NDC and lot number from each medication package dispensed in the patient’s record. One tablet is individually blistered on one blister card that is packaged in an individual package.

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Health Care Riders

Putting Patients First Blog

Since it is likely this appropriations package will be one of the last meaningful pieces of legislation before the November elections, other policy priorities may be added to that final legislation as it gets closer to passage. We reiterated these priorities to start the year in January 2024. The House passed H.R.

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How Amazon could Disrupt Pharmacy Services

The Digital Apothecary

Personally, I haven't seen this much attention in awhile about pharmacy since PillPack made strip-packaging of medications mainstream three-years ago, and am quite eager to see if this is really going to change the current paradigm of pharmacy services. One issue is that the dispensing process is not a full-proof system at the current time.

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Clinical trials for rare diseases

European Pharmaceutical Review

How does the qualification package support more meaningful endpoints and rare disease research as a result? When Aidan’s insurance company denied coverage for EXONDYS, the data she captured overturned the denial in 24 hours without engaging in the appeal process.

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Difference between Prescription vs Non-prescription drugs

FADIC

FDA approval process The FDA regulates both OTC and prescription drugs, but in different ways. Prescription drugs have to go through the New Drug Application (NDA) process. The application includes submitting clinical drug trial data and information about the manufacturing process.

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Budget expectation: Bring GST rate on APIs at par with the formulations

Express Pharma

Due to the multiplicity of regulatory processes and multiple regulators, undertaking operations become complex and time consuming. IRDAI has included the health insurance coverage for 12 such modern treatment methods under Chapter V of the Guidelines on “Standardisation of exclusions in health insurance contracts”.

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NHC 2024 Policy Priorities

Putting Patients First Blog

In response, a debt ceiling package was signed without Medicaid work requirements, symbolizing the power of patient advocates’ voices. Other areas where the NHC continued to make strides in its advocacy included telehealth expansion, health care transparency, and pharmacy benefit manager reforms.