Gregory Bordan

Firm/Organization: Norton Rose Fulbright
Blogs: Pharma in Brief

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The Quebec Court of Appeal has declared a decision by the Minister of Health and Social Services to “delist” Remicade from Quebec’s List of Medications (Quebec’s equivalent to a formulary) to be invalid and has ordered the minister to reinstate the drug on the list. Two takeaways from this decision: the minister’s decisions to list or delist individual drugs are administrative in nature and not regulatory, and a decision to delist may require the minster…
Bill 148, An Act to regulate generic medication procurement by owner pharmacists and to amend various legislative provisions, was tabled in the National Assembly on October 5. It will amend An Act respecting Prescription Drug Insurance, introducing the Regulation to govern generic medication procurement by owner pharmacists. The new Regulation will provide, subject to certain exceptions, that an owner pharmacist may not, in a given calendar year, procure generic medications from the same manufacturer for an…