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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Zarzamora Press Release.

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Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Illegally Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children Under 12

FDA Law

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. By Kalie E.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA , Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, added that ABIM provides program directors with aggregate performance data in their programs and, with permission, individual graduate data so that program directors can make adjustments to the programs as needed.

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Small Change: FDA’s Final Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) Guidance Ditches ML and Adds Some Details, But Otherwise Sticks Closely to the Draft

FDA Law

The final guidance hasnt changed much from the draft guidance with respect to the type of modifications FDA considers applicable for a PCCP and the required components of a PCCP (see our prior blog post on the draft guidance here ). FDA may request additional information during the review of the PCCP.

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Not Content to Just Play the Hits, DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement Policies Bring A Fresh Spin to Corporate Enforcement

FDA Law

Attorney’s Offices, and, importantly for readers of this blog, the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch (CPB), will all consistently reward corporations that voluntarily disclose and remediate misconduct. It relies on the Department of Justice to do so, either in the form of CPB or in individual U.S.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. C) the amount billed to or received from, in part or in whole, the health care benefit program from the individuals referred to a particular recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. §

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Three Entities (and a Part Owner and Pharmacist in Charge) Likely Must Swallow A Bitter PIL for Their Role in the Opioid Crisis; But … For Now, The District Court Denies Government’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction

FDA Law

In addition, the Complaint alleges inappropriate dispensing to numerous individuals, multiple DEA recordkeeping violations, improper alteration of prescriptions, and violations Texas law and federal corresponding responsibility obligations required of pharmacists that dispense opioid prescriptions. 21 U.S.C. §