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Laura Joszt, Managing Editor at The American Journal of Managed Care. Welcome to This Week in Managed Care from the Managed Markets News Network

The National Community Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores issued a joint statement expressing their frustration at the release of HHS’s final drug pricing rule for Medicare and Medicaid. The final version of the rule fails to reform pharmacy direct and indirect remuneration fees...READ MORE

A new forum comprising pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists and pharmacy educators with expertise, experience and interests in technology was launched by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)...This new forum aims to support our profession to take that ownership,” said FIP’s president Mr Dominique Jordan. Among the objectives of the Technology Forum, established at the behest of Mr Jordan, will be to explore global initiatives in technology and pharmacists’ involvement...It will also be tasked with outlining technological trends and their potential impact on pharmacy, and providing guidance for FIP members on technology matters, including digital trends, medical devices, “Amazonification” of pharmacy, and mobile health (mHealth)...READ MORE

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Attorneys general from more than 40 states are alleging the nation's largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs...filed in federal court in Connecticut, also names 15 individual senior executives responsible for sales, marketing and pricing...Connecticut Atty. Gen. William Tong...said investigators obtained evidence implicating 20 firms..."We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multibillion-dollar fraud on the American people," Tong said. "We have emails, text messages, telephone records and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multiyear conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs."...READ MORE

The U.S. Treasury Department...placed sanctions on Goldpharma, an Argentina-based network of online pharmacies that it said contributed to the opioid crisis by selling clandestinely produced narcotics to customers in the United States...The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated eight Argentine nationals and nine entities located in Argentina, Colombia, Canada, Britain and the Netherlands for their roles in Goldpharma...“The Goldpharma network illustrates the sophisticated tactics drug traffickers and money launderers use to capitalize on the Internet and online pharmacy sites to sell highly addictive illicit narcotics around the world,” said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence...READ MORE

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