- NCPA Supports Arkansas Law, Decries Shameful PBM Corporation Lawsuit (ncpanet.org)
National Community Pharmacists Association,.. issued the following statement..to champion a generic drug pricing transparency law enacted in Arkansas and to condemn a lawsuit filed on behalf of pharmacy benefit manager corporations to attempt to overturn the common-sense law…bipartisan law to bring more transparency to the generic drug pricing and reimbursement process...
- Will Biosimilars Impact the Cost of Specialty Drugs? (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Michael Zeglinski, Vice President of Specialty Pharmacy Operations at BriovaRx, discusses whether the R&D cost for biosimilars will affect the overall cost reduction.
- Are biotechs too expensive? (video.cnbc.com)
Jason Kolbert, Maxim Group senior biotechnology analyst, and CNBC's Meg Tirrell discuss the biotech sector and biotech valuations. (video)
- Insurance rate hikes (video.cnbc.com)
What's driving insurance rate increases, with Tenet Healthcare President & CEO Trevor Fetter. (video)
- Renown Health: Preparing For Growth In Northern Nevada: Medical Facility Expansion In Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (renown.org)
Patients seeking medical care in and around the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center now have convenient access for many medical services…facility …provides the following services: occupational health, physicals for the Department of Transportation and urgent care…the addition of the Tesla gigafactory to the industrial park, the need for new services is only expected to grow…
- Largest Portion of Pharmacy Expenditures Stem from Pediatric Hemophilia Treatment (pharmacytimes.com)
Hemophilia therapies account for 41% of outpatient pharmacy expenditures among publicly insured children with serious chronic illness… records showed that outpatient pharmacy expenditures totaled more than $475 million, or 20% of total health care expenditures…
- Optimizing Insulin Therapy (pharmacytimes.com)
Jessica Kerr, PharmD, CDE, and assistant department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville talks about new strategies pharmacists can use to optimize insulin therapy. (video)
- Nevada Society of Health-System Pharmacists – Annual Meeting: Continuing Education – October 3rd , Reno (nvshp.org)
- Provider Status Update - Christopher Tolopeski, Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Management of Medications in a Hospice and Palliative Care Patient - Justin Kullgren, PharmD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, South University College of Pharmacy and Hospice and Palliative Care
- Melanoma: Considerations in Pharmacotherapy - Jacob Frick, PharmD, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Management of Bipolar Disorder - Heather Mooney-Magallon, PharmD, Mental Health and Ambulatory Care, Sierra Nevada VA HCS
- GPS for the body? Nevada doctors use tech to pinpoint problems (reviewjournal.com)
University Medical Center(Las Vegas),...doctors can reach deep into the lungs to diagnose cancer — without using a scalpel… hospital's superDimension ™ Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy ™ system extends the bronchoscope's reach into smaller airways. Catheters can be accurately placed into lesions outside the tube's field of view… Pulmonologists such as Dr. Hidenobu Shigemitsu can stage suspicious areas for biopsy and treat cancers found in the lungs…Lung GPS™Technology minimizes invasiveness and results in early detection of cancers.
- Almost All Online Pharmacies Are Unsafe, Unlawful (pharmacytimes.com)
96% of online pharmacies are noncompliant with federal and state laws or National Association of Boards of Pharmacy safety and pharmacy practice standards…Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program revealed that 10,588 of the 11,015 online drug outlets it analyzed were noncompliant.