Pharmacy Law
Is your pharmacy faced with a regulatory legal issue or PBM Audit?
Contact Us. We can help.
Frier Levitt has extensive experience handling all types of pharmacy law matters. We currently represent thousands of pharmacies across the country in litigation arising from unfair PBM audits.
The trend in the pharmacy business has been for pharmacists to assume a more active role in patient care. Pharmacists now participate in disease management. The expanded role of pharmacists creates an additional need to keep informed of changes in federal and state law.
Whether you are a community pharmacy, compound pharmacy, independent or retail chain store pharmacist or a health system pharmacist, you are faced with increasing legal and regulatory issues. Frier Levitt has the experience to guide you through these often murky waters.
Outline of Services
We offer representation in the following Pharmacy related legal issues:
- Professional and Pharmacy licensing issues;
- Providing legal advice and assistance to pharmacy’s in responding to audits, including assistance with contract interpretation, explaining applicable state statutes, and discussing a pharmacy’s rights and obligations;
- Representation of Pharmacies facing PBM audits, particularly Pharmacies facing Medco audits.
- Assisting Pharmacies with unclaimed funds;
- Post-audit Response to the PBM’s Discrepancy Evaluation Report (the PBM’s audit result letter);
- Preventing the PBM from “retracting” from unrelated Remittance Advices what the PBM arbitrarily decides is owed from an audit;
- Employment contracts;
- Corporate/business legal advice tailored to pharmaceutical businesses, including purchase and/or sales of pharmacies;
- Representation at Hearings before the New Jersey Board of Pharmacy;
- Privacy of Patient Information and Patient Authorizations;
- Relationships with Third Party Payors including Managed Care Companies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers;
- Pharmacy Compliance Plans;
- Defense of civil and criminal matters relating to billing practices;
- Lawsuits to collect accounts receivable from insurance companies;
- Lawsuits to enforce or avoid restrictive covenants;
- Lawsuits relating to shareholder disputes; and
- Other pharmacy-related legal matters.
Contact Us
To discuss how Frier Levitt, LLC can help you, please call us at 973-618-1660, or toll-free at 1-888-Levitt-1 (i.e., 1-888-538-4881). You can also write to us using the contact form on the right side of this page.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Need audit assistance? Contact PAAS National® toll-free at 1-888-870-PAAS (7227)
Frier Levitt LLC has a long standing relationship with PAAS National® - The Pharmacy Audit Assistance Service. PAAS National® has assisted with over 14,700 PBM audits and has saved members pharmacies more than $59 million in penalties. Members receive pre- and post-audit assistance, expert contract review and negotiating strategies, a Third Party Monthly Newsline, and toll-free support for prescription filling and billing questions or to assist you with our extensive contact list of PBM personnel above and beyond the help desk. Frier Levitt recommends PAAS National® for audit assistance at www.paasnational.com. Among the many pre and post audit services provided by PAAS are counseling and assistance regarding:
- Avoiding Audits;
- Preparing for an upcoming Audit;
- Pharmacy conduct during the audit, including the handling of HIPAA issues and Ensuring fundamental fairness during the audit;
- Assisting pharmacies in responding to a PBM’s audit findings as identified during the audit;
- Modifying pharmacy practices to comply with Managed Care;
- Patient counseling requirements;
- Form of Prescription Requirements;
- Appropriate Use of Pharmacy Technicians;
- Drug Formulary Management;
- Electronic Prescriptions; and
- Prescriptive Authority of Various Health Care Professionals.
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