Novation joins McKesson’s OneStop program

(Drug Topics) Novation, a healthcare contracting services company based in Texas, has signed on to provide McKesson Corp’s OneStop Generics Program to their mutual health-system customers. McKesson said its OneStop program helps pharmacies to “take full advantage of the significant pricing advantage of generic drugs through a dedicated team of generics specialists and direct access to the latest product information and industry news.” Read more

NCPA reaches Fight4Rx goal

(Drug Topics) The member pharmacies of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) have reached their goal of recruiting more than 12,000 patients for Fight4Rx.org, an online effort aimed at turning pharmacy patients into activists for community pharmacies. Read more

Proposed Pharmacy Bill by Idaho House Committee Targets Moral Issues

(KPVI, Idaho. By: Tammy Scardino) The state of Idaho is now one step closer to passing legislation that would put into writing an unspoken understanding that pharmacists have the right to refuse filling a prescription. What makes this a hot topic is the specific type of medication that gets denied. Read more

Failure To Track Pharmacy Mistakes May Be ‘Prescription For Trouble’

(MSNBC) CLEVELAND/News Channel 5 – Prescription medication can save your life. But the wrong pills can kill you.

“There was an egregious error and the family believes it occurred on numerous occasions,” Owen Dunn said.

Dunn’s grandfather, Joe Hayduk, had a bladder disorder but pharmacy records show he was given a drug for diabetes instead. Hayduk died within months. Read more

Nevada Supreme Court considers pharmacy liability issue

(drug topics)In a case involving Wal-Mart and other drug retailers, the Nevada Supreme Court will decide whether pharmacies can be held legally responsible for death and injuries to non-customer third parties. A lower court dismissed pharmacists, Wal-Mart, and various other large drug retailers from a case involving a woman who caused a death while under the influence of prescription drugs. The decision was appealed. Read more

ABCNews Attemps To Sensationalize Pharmacst’s Moral Obection.

In an ABCNews produced show titled “What would you do”, producers send in actors with hidden cameras to mingle among the public displaying despicable behavior, then lay and wait for citizens to get involved. Those innocent bystanders who do nothing are backhandedly chastised on national TV. The ones that step in are described as heroes.

Leave it to ABCNews to setp it up a notch. They hired 2 actors, 1 to play a Pharmacist and 1 to play a teenage girl picking up her birth control. The scene. a New Jersey Pharmacy. Can you see where they are going with this one? The Pharmacist refuses to fill the girls medication due to “moral objection”. Now they will point the cameras at the unaware public and see if they intervene.

How convenient that they pick a state that has no conscious clause on the book.

ABCNews’s “What Would You Do” airs on Tuesday at 10PM EST on ABC.

New bill would exempt pharmacists from DME accreditation rules

(Drug Store News)ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In a bipartisan move welcomed by retail pharmacy advocates, U.S. Senators John Tester, D-Mont., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., have introduced
legislation that would eliminate burdensome restrictions on the sale of durable
medical equipment by pharmacies. Read more

Bill would allow community pharmacies to negotiate with PBMs

(drug topics) In an effort to permit community pharmacies to negotiate better contracts, Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) recently introduced legislation designed to level the playing field between community pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Read more

2004 FATAL CRASH: Lawyer says pharmacists liable

(ED VOGEL, reviewjournal.com)A Southern Nevada lawyer told the state Supreme Court on Monday that pharmacists, at the least, had a duty to call physicians to voice their concerns before dispensing a narcotic painkiller to a woman who killed a man in a 2004 vehicle crash in Las Vegas.

“They had a duty to control her conduct,” lawyer Phil Aurbach told justices. “They had absolute knowledge that prescription abuse was involved.” Read more

NCPA, NACDS welcome AMP hearing postponement

(Drug Topics) The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) applauded a decision by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth to postpone a February hearing about Medicaid Average Manufacturer Price (AMP). NACDS and NCPA filed a lawsuit in November 2007 against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Read more

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