Article: Mail-order debate. (includes related article on Food and Drug Administration's decision to reject tighter regulation of the mail-order industry)(RX: Mass Market Retail Pharmacy)

Mail-Order Debate

ARLINGTON, Va. - Current rules covering mail-order pharmacies are regulating the industry adequately, says the executive vice president of the American Managed Care Pharmacy Association.

Delbert Konnor, whose Arlington, Va.-based group represents the major mail-order pharmacy services (including those of Thrift Drug Co. and Phar-Mor Inc.), says mail-order businesses are held to the same standards as community pharmacies by the pharmacy boards of their home states.

In denying a petition for more stringent regulation of the industry, Konnor notes, the Food and Drug Administration ruled in November that the $2.5 billion mail-order ...

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