Here are this week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: .
More than 2,000 independent pharmacies are said to be rejoining the Tricare retail pharmacy network, according to officials at Cigna/Express Scripts, which manages the prescription plan. As of Oct. 24, there were 14,963 independent pharmacies that left the Tricare retail pharmacy network primarily due to their objections about low reimbursement rates out of 55,586 retail pharmacies in the network.
Retail pharmacy Walmart has agreed to pay $500,000 to Massachusetts after allegedly failing to follow the state's prescription pricing procedures designed