May 13th 2025
Trump anticipates that the executive order will help lower drug prices by 30% to 80%.
May 12th 2025
The financial decision is due to customer demand stemming from the reshoring of drug supply services.
The President plans to sign an executive order on Monday morning to enforce the trade clause.
April 30th 2025
A seminar shares key observations and learnings from the first round of direct price negotiations.
April 29th 2025
IQVIA’s Doug Long offers a lay of the land, including trends and developing issues that are shaping the current market.
Getting ready for MACRA
Healthcare stakeholders ruminate on the effects of MACRA’s alternative payment models
Two drug-pricing firms combine data sets for a deeper picture on reimbursement decisions
Context Matters Inc. and IHS Markit provide analytics on pricing strategies
Survey tracks evolving health economics function in pharma
Cutting Edge report finds continued growth in headcount
Is your corporate board equipped to monitor incentive programs?
Compliance officers at pharma companies need to ensure that the right mechanisms are in place for monitoring sales and business incentives
Scott Gottlieb confirmed as FDA Commissioner
Takes reins with prior experience at both FDA and HHS
HDA’s Origin data service will streamline DSCSA compliance
Wholesaler-led initiative tags ValueCentric to build an industry data repository; sign in for an April 28 webinar
CMOs scramble to get DSCSA compliance in place by November
At Interphex, quick-start programs will be showcased by vendors
QuintilesIMS and Veeva battle over customer master data
QuintilesIMS lawsuit is countered by Veeva’s, claiming antitrust and restraint of trade
US senators question Marathon Pharma’s pricing policy for Emflaza
Rare-disease drug also garnered a valuable pediatric review voucher
FDA’s Office of Generics sets a record of 800+ approvals in 2016
Timely delivery of results will help in GDUFA renewal come October
HHS issues a final rule on 340b policy details
Meanwhile, Congress strategizes repealing Obamacare, which expanded the 340b program
Medical associations, policy groups organize to fight counterfeit drugs and rogue online pharmacies
New consumer-education campaign led by Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
Senators wrap up Turing-Valeant hearings on price gouging
A preamble for a next round of legislating drug pricing?
TraceLink survey sees a more complex, less-unified approach to DSCSA
Just released survey details lack of consensus and difficulties with current requirements
More drug-pricing trouble: generic manufacturers are accused of price collusion
Connecticut leads 20 states suing an alleged ring led by Heritage Pharma
There are no counterfeit drugs—only ‘falsified’ ones, opines WHO workgroup
The end of SSFFCs?
Here comes the 21st Century Cures Act
Bills passes House with broad bipartisan support; Senate approval likely
Former Valeant and Philidor executives arrested by DoJ
Upcoming trial could explore the intricacies of ‘alternative fulfillment’ via specialty pharmacies
HDA pilot study identifies possible solutions to DSCSA compliance for returned product
Working out these details points to how full compliance will look in 2023
Aggregate-spend reporting: two in three companies gaining business insights
Compliance with the Physicians’ Sunshine Act has moved quickly into obtaining business value
Regulators press forward to fight drug counterfeiting and illicit dispensing
NABP tracks rogue online pharmacies; WHO codifies international testing standards for SSFFCs
Pharma pricing and antitrust law
US courts fail to clarify when pricing may violate antitrust laws
The fentanyl-opioid crisis is a counterfeiting crisis
More evidence that drug abusers are at risk from counterfeiters
Deloitte unveils ExaLink, a cloud-based commercial-compliance portal
CIS by Deloitte seeks to provide a comprehensive service for revenue management
5 CAPA best practices for clinical research
Guilty verdict is handed down in 2012 MOMS Pharmacy drug-diversion case
‘Operation Black Market Meds’ involved New York State, Florida and federal investigators
A fake drugs intrusion in the US—with a twist
Painkiller addicts buy street drugs that simulate well-known pharma brands
A jurisdictional battle breaks out over physician assistant certification
AAPA is positioning itself to provide alternative certification
They don’t call them ‘vaults’ for nothing
WDSrx expands controlled substances storage
Home infusion patient satisfaction to be studied