Finance Committee meeting
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on "Covid-19 Health Care Flexibilities" e.g., telehealth. It's this coming Wednesday, May 19 at 10:00 am EDT. Click here for info.
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on "Covid-19 Health Care Flexibilities" e.g., telehealth. It's this coming Wednesday, May 19 at 10:00 am EDT. Click here for info.
... for writing about the threat to compounded hormones in Townsend Letter: "If We Lose Compounded Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy"
He is the recipient of the California Pharmacists Association 2021 Steven C. Feldman Compounding Award — "an individual who is a leader in California pharmacy by virtue of his activities to advance the practice of compounding."
If you were staring into the fridge thinking, “What three things can an independent pharmacy do to compete with Amazon?” you’re in luck: Forbes has an answer.
It's not news that people of color have had it worse during the pandemic for a host of reasons. It seems they're also "disadvantaged in virus vaccine effort" due to a lack of local pharmacies, as Axios explains.
Last week, FDA announced that it was reopening the comment period for it’s proposed updated 503B Bulks List — the “bulk drug substances (active pharmaceutical ingredients) that FDA has considered and proposes to include or not include on the list of bulk drug substances for which there is a clinical need.” Comments can now be submitted until February 8, 2021, and APC is considering commenting. Simply put: We welcome member input about what should be the substance of those comments. Nothing formal (on your end); all you need to do is send an email to scott@a4pc.org.
Be sure to read this wonderful story about compounding pharmacist Eddie Levin who lost his job — and whose neighbors came to the rescue.
Paper prescriptions are well on their way out, so your e-script knowledge needs to be 100 percent up to date. NCPDP Script 2017071 is the 800-pound gorilla of electronic prescribing, and you’ll want to know it backwards and forwards. APC’s new live webinar, E-Prescribing in Compounding, will help you do just that.
Congrats to APC member Diana Harshbarger (TN-1), who will become the first compounder in Congress with her victory Tuesday. (Buddy Carter, GA-1, currently the only pharmacist in Congress, was reelected as well.)
California's Board of Pharmacy is considering a rather overzealous attempt to limit animal compounding from bulks, and APC is happy to support our friends at the California Pharmacists Association with a letter to the BoP opposing those changes.