More than 25 states considering suing if FTC allows Medco/ESI merger to go through

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Express Scripts Bid for Medco Said to Face Suit by Five States The FTC has always seemed to favored PBM’s and mail order… if this merger is allowed to proceed… would help to confirm this observation. Why else would the FTC deny the ATT & TMobile merger and the Omnicare & Pharmerica merger this year.. […]

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Is this incestual?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Here is a list of sponsors for annual meeting of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Of course, the BOP’s of  this country don’t actually oversee permit holders… because it is the PIC’s who is held legally responsible for the operation of the Rx dept. Haven’t we seen such things out of Congress with […]

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If this is legal… why did they pay a fine?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

CBS EVENING NEWS VIDEO This is a CBS evening news report from Sept 2010. The video starts out… THIS IS LEGAL… and then goes on to rip Walgreens about providing Ranitidine caps over tabs because the CAPS apparently were more profitable. We all know that prescribers seldom specify whether they want tabs/caps of a particular […]

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