OptumRX, UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy-care services business, and Catamaran Corp., a provider of pharmacy-benefit services and technology solutions, said on Monday that they have agreed to a merger. Read More »

More than 359 pharmacy advocates from 44 different states met with members of Congress last week during the seventh annual NACDS RxIMPACT Day on Capitol Hill. Read More »

RegionalCare Hospital Partners on Thursday announced it is working with RelayHealth to provide health care professionals and patients with seamless access to complete, longitudinal records that capture clinical information from various care settings. Read More »

The Patient Access to Pharmacists’ Care Coalition (PAPCC), a group of more than 24 organizations representing patients, pharmacies, pharmacists and other stakeholders, announced on Wednesday the launch of an expanded media initiative. Read More »

Ohio Pharmacy Counseling Services, Ltd., announced on Thursday that it has licensed ActualMeds’ cloud-based comprehensive medication management software to be used by its national network of licensed consulting pharmacists. Read More »

Group joins president in launching initiative to improve health care and reduce costs. Read More »

Omnicell, Inc., announced on Wednesday that it will exhibit the addition of its automated medication cabinets with MACH4's modular robotic solutions at the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists until March 27. Read More »

In a recent blog post on Cardinal Health’s thought leadership site, Essential Insights, Cardinal Health’s medication therapy management product leader, Brad Tice, said that now is the time to fully measure return on investment (ROI) of medication therapy management (MTM). Read More »

In its 2011 report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program was insufficient to deliver an equitable guarantee that program participants were in compliance with program requirements. Read More »

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell -- joined by President Obama, members of Congress, insurers, business leaders and consumers -- kicked off the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network on Wednesday at a White House meeting. Read More »

Medical, vision, dental and pharmacy benefits included in plan. Read More »

The ASHP Foundation said on Tuesday that 15 pharmacists have been chosen to participate in the ASHP Research and Education Foundation’s 2015 Pain and Palliative Care Traineeship (Level Three). “The selection committee was incredibly impressed by the quality and diversity of this year's Level III applicants,” Chris Herndon, a traineeship faculty member and associate professor at Southern Illinois University's Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, said. Read More »

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Angus King (I-ME) and U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) sent a letter on Tuesday to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg urging the FDA to withdraw the proposed “Electronic Distribution of Prescribing Information for Human Prescription Drugs, Including Biological Products” rule. Read More »

Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means committees on Tuesday introduced H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Read More »

TeaserButler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on Monday announced that this summer it will launch the nation's first open-access multimedia healthcare review journal. Read More »

An article published on the LillyPad blog yesterday focused on the reemergence of bipartisanship support for medical innovation. Read More »

Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart this month announced that Iowa-based Co-Opportunity Health will cost taxpayers at least another $80 million after being declared insolvent and taken over by the state. Read More »

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc., an independent, trend-focused pharmacy benefit manager, on Monday announced it will be the first to deploy Fast Identity Online (FIDO) authentication for the health care industry. Read More »

A study published in the March issue of the journal Health Affairs suggests that most primary-care physicians are aware of prescription-drug monitoring programs, and that more physicians might use the programs if they were easier to use. Read More »

Compliance firm LegitScript, which monitors Internet-based sales of health care products for safety and legality, announced today that it is releasing a complimentary Internet pharmacy guide for domain registrars and registries. Read More »