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The 503A and 503B legal landscape is ever changing and staying on top of these changes can be tedious.

But don’t worry! Sykes is here with the trustee colleagues at Brown & Fortunato.

On this episode of the Bottom Line Pharmacy Podcast, Scotty Sykes, CPA, CFP® and Bonnie Bond CPA, sit down with Brad Howard, Esq. And Michael Alexander, Esq. From Brown & Fortunato share recent changes to the 503A and 503B regulatory landscape including:

• The Evolving relationship between 503B and 503A pharmacies
• Impact of FDA regulations and state-level inconsistencies
• Possible changes coming in 2025

More about our guest:

Brad Howard:

Bradley W. Howard is a health care attorney with extensive experience representing pharmacies, durable medical equipment providers, hospitals, and many other health care providers with compliance, enforcement, and litigation matters throughout the country. Brad enjoys working with pharmacies and other health care providers on regulatory and contractual compliance matters, payer and PBM audits and appeals, governmental demands and requests, responses to subpoenas and demand letters, and business disputes including litigation. Brad routinely handles health care investigations by the Department of Justice, HHS OIG, various boards of pharmacy, State Attorneys General, the Department of Defense, and other regulators.

Michael Alexander:

Michael represents health care clients in a variety of business and regulatory matters, including regulatory compliance, licensing, due diligence review in the acquisition of health care providers, government investigations, and commercial disputes. Michael’s clients are primarily pharmacies, hospitals, and physician groups, but he also assists many other health care providers. Michael has successfully assisted his clients in resolving government investigations on both the state and federal level involving general compliance issues as well as matters related to fraud, waste, and abuse. He has also represented clients in payor disputes, and worked in conjunction with his clients, co-counsel, and other parties to coordinate the simultaneous acquisition and re-licensure of multiple health care providers.

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