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September 24th 2024
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Healthcare Supply Chain Raises More Concerns about FDA Proposed Changes to Generic Drug Labeling
April 12th 2016A group of 15 health care stakeholders today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concerns that the FDA Proposed Rule to change generic drug label requirements could permit multiple, potentially conflicting labels for therapeutically equivalent products.
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How to Motivate Medication Adherence and Compliance
April 11th 2016Compliance and adherence are key factors for modern pharmacists to know because they're in an important position to encourage patients to follow their prescribed treatment regimens and to help modify behaviors in support of those regimens.
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NCPA: Medicare Must Address 'Significantly Underwater' Drug Reimbursements
April 7th 2016With many independent community pharmacists reporting financial losses filling Medicare prescriptions, the National Community Pharmacists Association has written to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and asked the agency to take action to prompt Part D plans and/or their pharmacy benefit managers to comply with a federal requirement that Medicare prescription drug reimbursement reflect "the market price of acquiring the drug."
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