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Healthcare Life Sciences Drug Pricing Digest - July 2025 #2

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which was published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2025. The comment period ends on September...more

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Compounded GLP-1 Drugs: Texas Judge Denies PI Motion and Request for Stay of FDA’s Declaration that Tirzepatide Shortage is...

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On March 5, 2025, one U.S. District Court ruled unequivocally in the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) favor in the case, Outsourcing Facilities Ass’n, et. al. v. U.S. Food and Drug Admin., et. al., 4:24-cv-0953-P, slip op.,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Semaglutide Shortage Resolved

On February 21, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its shortage categorization of semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication, marking the shortage as “resolved” for all presentations of the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

End of Semaglutide Shortage Means Big Changes for Prescribers and Compounders

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On February 21, the FDA announced that the shortage of semaglutide injection products has been resolved. Semaglutide has appeared on the FDA’s Drug Shortage List since 2022 because demand for the drug exceeded the available...more

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Pounding the Compounders: FDA’s “No Compound” Lists

Novo Nordisk recently made headlines petitioning FDA to stop the compounding of its blockbuster GLP-1 products so it can sell its patented semaglutide drugs exclusively. Compounding is the practice of creating new drug...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Exemptions from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act Enhanced Drug Distribution Security Requirements

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On July 12, 2024, the FDA provided small dispensers—those employing 25 or fewer full-time pharmacists or pharmacy technicians—with an exemption from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act’s (“DSCSA”) enhanced drug distribution...more

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FDA Issues Broad Exemptions from DSCSA Enhanced Drug Distribution Security Requirements

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On October 9, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a document that provides exemptions to the enhanced drug distribution security requirements (enhanced requirements) required by section 582(g) of the Food,...more

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Tirzepatide Shortage Resolved

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On October 3, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its shortage categorization of tirzepatide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication, marking the shortage as “resolved” for all presentations of the...more

Jones Day

Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Spring 2024

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Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on recent developments in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") regulatory...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

FDA Publishes Proposed Rule on Sections 503A and 503B Compounding

On March 20, 2024, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule titled Drug Products or Categories of Drug Products that Present Demonstrable Difficulties for Compounding Under Sections 503A or 503B of the...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: The Supreme Court Signals That Access to Mifepristone Will Likely Remain Safe for Now

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On March 26, 2024, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the two consolidated cases concerning access to mifepristone pending before the Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Case No. 23-235 and Danco Laboratories,...more

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Drug Supply Chain Security Act Compliance Extended But Trading Partners Should Still Prepare Now

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On Friday, August 25th, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a guidance document extending the November 27, 2023 enforcement deadline for drug and device manufacturers, wholesale distributors, dispensers, and...more

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FDA Announces Guidance for DSCSA Process to Request a Waiver, Exception, or Exemption

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On Friday, August 4th, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced the availability of a final guidance document, titled “Waivers, Exceptions, and Exemptions From the Requirements of Section 582 of the Federal Food,...more

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FDA Modifies Mifepristone REMS Program, Establishes Certification Process for Pharmacies

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On January 3, 2023, FDA released an updated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for mifepristone. The updated REMS follows a December 2021 FDA announcement that it would eliminate the requirement that mifepristone...more

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FDA REMS Protocol Modification Provides a Pathway for Pharmacies to Dispense Mifepristone

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On January 3, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) modified its risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program (“Mifepristone REMS Program”) to provide a process for pharmacies to become certified to...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

In Through the Out Door: FDA Issues Guidance on Its Importation of Prescription Drugs Final Rule

Channeling Led Zeppelin’s “In Through The Out Door,” in May 2022, the Food and Drug Administration issued a guidance for industry entitled, “Importation of Prescription Drugs Final Rule Questions and Answers (Small Entity...more

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The Clock is Ticking: Comments to Proposed Federal Rules For Wholesalers and 3PLs are Due June 6th and Here’s What We Think

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On February 4, 2022, the FDA released its long-awaited proposed national standards for the licensure of third party logistics providers (3PLs) and wholesale drug distributors. The draft rules were years over-due and the delay...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FDA Releases Proposed Rule on National Standards for Drug Wholesaler Licensure

On February 4, 2022—more than six years after the deadline imposed by statute—the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a proposed rule titled “National Standards for the Licensure of Wholesale Drug Distributors...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - July 2021

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Current Good Manufacturing Practices in the Time of COVID-19: FDA Announces New Expectations on Risk Assessment and Risk...

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FDA recently published its “Good Manufacturing Practice Considerations for Responding to COVID-19 Infection in Employees in Drug and Biological Products Manufacturing Guidance for Industry” (“Guidance”) which provides...more

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5 Key Points on Retail, Specialty, Compounding, and Other Pharmacy Investment Opportunities

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The next in our series of posts sharing key takeaways from panels at the Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity and Lending Conference focuses on investing in pharmacy businesses. The pharmacy industry has been...more

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