Plan Ahead for Potential Drug Recalls
As drug recalls become more common, pharmacies should ensure they are prepared to effectively manage them and minimize risk for patients and their business.
Pharmacy: Standards Require Credential Verification
Verifying pharmacy personnel credentials is important to ensure compliance with payor requirements and government regulations.
Demonstrating Separate Services for Home Infusion Therapy Accreditation
For home infusion therapy (HIT) suppliers, the Medicare Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) apply to an organization as a whole — including all clients/patients and not just Medicare beneficiaries.
Pharmacy: Validating Your Shipping System
ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation Standards require an organization to ship pharmaceuticals in a manner that maintains appropriate sanitation, light, and temperature conditions.
Pharmacy: Include All Staff in Survey Preparation
Pharmacies often rely on one person to be responsible for all accreditation survey preparations. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member.
Pharmacy: Do Your Part for a Successful Survey
Your survey for ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation is a collaborative effort between the Surveyor and your organization. Each is responsible for performing certain duties to collectively ensure a successful survey experience.
Coming Soon: Revisions to USP <795>, <797>
Many in the pharmacy industry welcome news that the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) plans to publish revised standards for USP General Chapters <795> and <797> on November 1, 2022. The announcement comes more than three years after USP first published proposed revisions in 2019.
PINCH OF THIS, DASH OF THAT? COMPOUNDING MEDICATIONS TAKES AN EXACTING RECIPE
Compounded medications provide customized solutions for specific patient needs, such as a liquid dosage form instead of a pill, and are gaining greater acceptance for the benefits and flexibility they offer.
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