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Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, H.R. 592/S. 314, would give state-licensed pharmacists in underserved communities provider status, enabling them to provide...services to Medicare patients...bill would amend Medicare Part B rules to allow pharmacists to receive payment for their care services, thereby increasing patients’ access to essential services,...

United States has filed and settled a civil lawsuit against ROCHESTER DRUG COOPERATIVE, INC.,.distributor of controlled substances...admitted and accepted responsibility for numerous violations of the Controlled Substances Act..agreed to pay $360,000 in penalties and to re-submit to DEA corrected record-keeping reports..

Donald Lee King previously admitted to orchestrating a criminal conspiracy that smuggled large quantities of Alprolazam from Mexico to Kentucky and Tennessee...has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.

Bats, rats and other pests are turning VA facilities into their summer homes. The recent discovery of dead bats in trashcans led the Eastern Kansas VA Hospital in Leavenworth to shut down operating rooms and postpone 16 surgeries until next week.

..how you can get more involved in supporting the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act , the provider status legislation for pharmacists. Here are a few tips on how you can help encourage your Members of Congress to support H.R. 592/S. 314.

• When Congress is IN session
•  E-mail
•  Call
•  Visit
•  Gossip
• When Congress is OUT of session
•  Plan a visit
•  Host a Member at your pharmacy (or your school!).
•  Attend a Town Hall

Chief information officers may soon have to find themselves lawyers, because as cybersecurity attacks increase, the IT leaders could end up in the courtroom,…In the wake of the fallout from the news that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was hacked, exposing the records of millions of federal employees,...

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in England gain access to patient records,...government has decided to give...read-only access to the summary care record, an electronic patient record derived from patients’ GP records, if the patient gives consent.

insurance regulators and state attorneys general are lining up to scrutinize Aetna Inc's proposed $33 billion takeover of rival Humana Inc for potential harm to consumers,...already expected to be a tough and lengthy review by federal antitrust authorities.

Researchers from Canada, Europe and the United States are calling on major funding agencies to set up a global genomic data repository in the cloud...available ...worldwide...offer massive storage and compute power...applaud...National Institutes of Health's decision...to lift its restriction on the use of cloud computing for storing genomic data sets.

Eleven congressmen have asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for information on the enforcement of transparency measures for generic drug payments in Medicare Part D plans for 2016.