One element of the 2012 State of the Union address delivered on Jan. 24 was to create a “Trade Enforcement Unit” that will investigate unfair trading practices affecting US imports; it will include “more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe […]

Getting prior authorization for reimbursement for specialty pharmaceuticals can be a key stumbling block to connecting patients with prescribed meds. Without the prior auth, patients sometimes return to their physician to seek cheaper or alternative meds that their health plans […]

Although the very concept of standardization of something like National Drug Codes (NDCs) on pharmaceutical packages would seem to be straightforward, in fact there have been many variations—with special placeholder digits in the NDC, for example—that various parts of the […]

Verify Brand (Minneapolis) is no Johnny-come-lately to the serialization/track-and-trace battlefield in life sciences; the company was actually founded (in 2003) in the business, but left it as a matter of survival after the California e-pedigree rules were postponed in 2008. […]

Although New York State is one of over 40 states that has a prescription monitoring program (PMP) to prevent drug abusers from filling multiple subscriptions by fraudulently obtaining scrip sheets or prescriptions, the system takes 15 to 45 days to […]