Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay up to $350 million to resolve allegations that its pharmacies filled millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. The Department of Justice claims that Walgreens sought payment for invalid prescriptions through Medicare and other federal healthcare programs in violation of the False Claims Act. 

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a bill barring pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies,  According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate drug prices and cut off access to critical medications.

Immunization Information Systems, or immunization registries, are located in every state and in many large cities to collect individuals’ vaccine records to consolidate them in one location, says Rebecca Coyle, executive director of the American Immunization Registry Association.

Technology, governance and going outside the typical channels to democratize data, is necessary to unleash more than the 5-10% of data that is accessed today, says Bruno Lempernesse, MDClone’s president.  

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has advanced legislation that would seek to bar pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, claiming that PBMs are taking advantage of lax regulations. According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate drug prices and cut off access to critical medications.