Drug Shortage Prevention Could Be Funded Through GDUFA

GPhA recommends FDA deploy user fee research money to look at shortage risk assessment and mitigation strategies, while the trade group continues to look for a product to fit its own shortage prediction model.

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association wants user fees for research of drug shortage mitigation ideas, but still believes its own effort can work.

GPhA’s Accelerated Recovery Initiative continues to wait for the right product shortage to take full advantage of the tools in...

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Pilot is harbinger of greater transparency in the 340B program. But rebates may only be denied by manufacturers for overlap with Medicare negotiated prices, not for issues like diversion that have driven recent lawsuits.

Double Duty At US FDA: Tidmarsh Will Temporarily Lead Both CDER And CBER

 

Just a week and a half into his tenure at the agency, the new CDER Director George Tidmarsh was also tapped to serve as acting head of CBER. Prasad’s swift ouster at CBER may point to a softening in cell and gene therapy regulation but could also portend even more scrutiny on vaccines.

Big PBM Dominance Enabled By Affiliated Third Party Administrators Limiting Choices, FTC Told

 
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Complaints about TPAs offer an explanation of why self-funded employers continue to use the big three PBMs despite concerns about those relationships. Proposed solutions include banning retaliatory fees and data withholding.