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HHS Advisory Opinion on Contract Pharmacies Offers Hope for 340B Programs

A new advisory opinion from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) clarifies that 340B hospitals are entitled to buy covered outpatient drugs at the discounted price, even if they use contract pharmacies to distribute the drugs to patients. In the advisory opinion released on Dec. 30, 2020, HHS states that the requirement to

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2021 PHARMACY TRENDS

4 Pharmacy Trends to Watch in 2021

COVID-19 redefined healthcare last year, as hospitals quickly adapted to care for critically ill patients, meet high demand for ICU beds and deal with workforce shortages. Although better days are on the horizon with the availability of the first COVID-19 vaccines, the public health crisis isn’t over yet. We recently sat down with Mark Brown,

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A Dose of Hope: Hospitals Begin Vaccinating Frontline Workers

Hospitals across the country received their initial allotments of the FDA-approved Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week. For weeks, hospitals and healthcare workers have been preparing tirelessly for this moment. Those preparations included acquiring adequate freezer space, devising a prioritization plan for vaccinating employees, and training staff to administer the shots. CompleteRx has supported pharmacy and

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3 in 5 Episode 4: FASB Standard Leases (Topic 842): What Hospital Executives Should Know Part 2

For more information watch part one here. Please note since recording this episode, FASB has issued an update allowing for non-public business entities to elect to defer implementation of this accounting standard – Leases (Topic 842) until fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021. More information regarding the effective dates can be found here. This

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Be Antibiotics Aware: 6 Steps to Protect Your Patients

November 18-24, 2023 is annual Antibiotics Awareness Week which highlights the steps everyone can take to improve antibiotic prescribing and use.   Antibiotic stewardship is vital for protecting patients from harm, improving treatment for patients who have infections, fighting antibiotic resistance, and reducing hospital costs and lengths of stay. While U.S. hospitals have made some

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