2024 InTouch Archive
December 20, 2024 [Keywords: Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, 340B, PBMs, Electronic Prescribing, Medicaid updates, GLP-1s, FDA actions, Drug shortages]
December 6, 2024 [Keywords: 340B, PBMs, Flu season, Medicaid Pathways program, GLP1s, FDA actions, IV fluid production]
November 11, 2024 [Keywords: GLP-1 compounding, DEA telehealth rules, new stroke prevention guidelines, IHCP bulletins, FDA actions, vaccine recommendations]
October 26, 2024 [Keywords: Indiana Medicaid Audit, IV fluid shortage, DSCSA exemptions, Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, IHCP bulletins, FDA actions]
October 4, 2024 [Keywords: Residency Showcase, IDOH Immunization Updates, Webinar, American Pharmacist's Month, Rural Emergency Hospitals, Ascension Cyber Attack, Medicare Telehealth Waivers, EpiPen Billing, Novartis' Ribociclib]
September 20, 2024 [Keywords: IPA in the Community, NAB'Ps Safe Site Search Tool, DSCSA, PrEP for HIV, Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, Coverage for Adstiladrin, 2023 Recipents of Bowl or Hygeia Award, OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor]
September 6, 2024 [Keywords: Fall Conference, Contraception Training Series, Residency Showcase, College of Pharmacy Visits, WHO & Mpox, Coverage Changes for COVID-19 Services, Viral Hepatitis Newsletter, KP.2 Adaptive COVID-19 Vaccines]
August 23, 2024 [Keywords: RxSafeNet & CPESN Host Social Gatherings, Webinar Recordings, CMS Clarifies Plan Requirements, Childhood Vaccination Coverage, Contraception Prescribing, PBM Reform Bill, Local News Stories, GLP-1 Compounding]
August 2, 2024 [Keywords: IPA Mourns Loss of Ralph Anderson, First Point-of-Care Hepititis C Test, Interim Report on 340B, PathWays, Viral Hepatitis, Medicaid Expenses, Pharmacists Shortage WRTV]
July 5, 2024 [Keywords: IPA Launches Affinity Groups, Complimentary CE Impact Subscription for Pharmacist Members, Healthy Equity, Pharmacy Closures, PBM's, Healhy Indiana Plan, Opioid Deaths, FDA Approvals, Inflation Reduction Act]
June 21, 2024 [Keywords: IPA's Legislaitve & Regulatory Council meets to review IPA's Legislative Agenda for 2025, PAAS National Announces New Training Series, Joint Commission Allows Texting of Patient Orders, Indiana's Health Workforce, IHCP Bulletins and Drug News]
June 7, 2024 [Keywords: IPA Pharmacy Technicians receive complimentary subscription to CE Impact, OptumRx Auditing for Medicare Part D, Federal and Indiana Updates, IHCP Bulletins, FDA Approvals Moderna's mRNA RSV Vaccine for older adults and more.]
May 17, 2024 [Keywords: UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare Cyberattack, HHS FAQs, ASHP, Telehealth, PBMs, Medicare, Congenital Syphilis, Ascension Cyberattack, Marijuana Stance, IHCP Bulletins, GLP-1s, Donanemab]
April 26, 2024 [Keywords: Change Healthcare Hack, UnitedHealth Cyberattack, Becerra, California Gubernatorial Bid, NCPA, Express Scripts, 304B Dispute Rule, Supreme Court, EMTALA, DEA Burglary and Prescribing Fraud Recommendations, Good Samaritan Specialty Pharmacy, IHCP, Makena, Dolutegravir/Lamivudine, Drug Shortages, Opill, CAR-T, Mounjaro, Zepbound]
April 12, 2024 [Keywords: Optum, Change Healthcare Outage, HHS List of Drug Capped by Inflation, Mifepristone Access, FDA Proposes Standards, Prescription for Secrecy, Marijuana, Hope Pharmacy, Drug Utilization Review Board Updates, HCPCS update]
March 29, 2024 [Keywords: MedRX, CVS Settlement, Eighth Circuit Court, 340B, PBM Reform, Indiana PathWays, Overinflated Insulin Prices, Specialty Pharmacy, IHCP Bulletins, Macitentan/Tadalafil, Pemivibart, Ponatinib, Fluorouracil, Aprocitentan, Hormonal Contraceptive Prescribing]
March 15, 2024 [Keywords: Annual Meeting, OTC Birth Control, Biden's Budget, Amazon Zepboun Delivery, IHCP Bulletins, COVID-19 Vaccine, Semaglutide, OTC CGM, Paxlovid]
March 1, 2024 [Keywords: PAC Donations, UnitedHealth Cyberattack, COVID-19 PHE, DIR Fee Changes, SureScripts, Government Funding Package, IHCP Bulletins, ASC Joint Venture, Gender-Affirming Care, Severe Frostbite, Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer, COVID-19 Booster, Omalizumab, Pepaxto]
February 16, 2024 [Keywords: Affinity Groups, Bylaw Changes, Scholarships, Law Enforcement Access to PHI, CDER Guidance, Interim Rule, IHCP Bulletins, Drug Shortages, Eosinophil Esophagitis, RSV Vaccine, Paxlovid]
​February 2, 2024 [Keywords: Elections, Scholarships, Legislative Day, DSCSA, HHS, Drug Importation, Prior Authorization, Abortion, Vaccines, Pharmacy Closings/Openings, IHCP Bulletins, CAR-T Cancer Therapy, Paxlovid, Shortages, Ozempic/Mounjaro]
January 19, 2024 [Keywords: PBM audits, ISHP Fellowship, ONC Rule, CMS, OCR, IHCP Bulletins, Humira, FDA actions, Marijuana]
January 5, 2024 [Keywords: PBM, Legislation, ISHP Fellowship, RSV, FTC, IHCP Bulletins, Flovent, eflornithine]