Group argues that the dispensing of specialty drugs by certain pharmacies is restricting patient choice, in violation of provincial law and the industry’s own regulations
An industry group representing Quebec pharmacists is seeking court authorization for a class-action lawsuit against some of its own members, raising concerns about patients being directed to certain pharmacies to fill specialty medications.
“Those PSP managers seem to have preferential commercial – direct or indirect – engagements with specific pharmacies,” said Geneviève Pelletier, the AQPP’s senior director of external and pharmaceutical affairs. This practice has become more common over the past two decades, she added. As a result, the group estimates that roughly 40 per cent of specialty drugs are now being distributed by just 0.5 per cent of the approximately 1,900 pharmacies in Quebec.since Manulife Financial Corp.
The court application names as defendants of the proposed lawsuit 10 of AQPP’s member pharmacists who own six pharmacies. It also names three companies whose services include PSP managers: Innomar Strategies Inc., Bayshore Healthcare and BioScript Pharmacy Ltd. And it names three infusion clinic networks – clinics that administer specialty drugs intravenously – which are owned by the same companies as the PSP managers.
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