Federal Law Flashcards
CMS
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CMS Responsibility/Oversight
Responsible for reimbursement policies and procedures for pharmacies and other healthcare providers participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Programs
FDA
Food and Drug Administration
FDA REsponsibilities
Administers the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
FTC Responsibility
Administers the Federal Trade Commission Act, which enforces unfair business practices and antitrust violations
DEA
Drug Enforcement Agency
DEA Responsibility
Administers the Federal Controlled Substances Act
Three legal tests a regulation must meet to be valid
- The regulation must be within the scope of the agency’s authority
- The regulation must be based on a statue that gives the agency the authority to promulgate the regulation
- The regulation must bear a reasonable relationship to the public health, safety, and welfare
Shortcomings of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
- US V. Johnson: Johnson claimed on the label of a drug that it was effective against cancer, knowing this representation was false. –> Court ruled that the misbranding provision in the law prevented false statements only to the drug’s identity
- The act failed to regulate cosmetics and devices
Intents and Requirements imposed by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
- No new drug could be marketed until proven safe for use under the conditions described on the label and approved by the FDA.
- Expanded on the definitions of mislabeling and adulteration used in the earlier act- labels must contain adequate directions for use and warnings about the habit-forming properties of certain drugs
- The law applies to cosmetics and devices as well
- The act exempted drugs marketed before 1938 from the requirement that new drugs proven safe before being marketed.
What two drugs marketed before 1938 received amendments to ensure uniform potency?
Insulin (amendment made in 1941)
Penicillin (amendment made in 1945)
Two medications resulting in tragedy that were major catalysts for major legislation
- Sulfanilamide elixir
- Thalidomide
Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951
- Established 2 classes of drugs: Prescription and Over the Counter
- Provided that the labels of prescription drugs need not contain: “adequate directions for use” so long as they contain the legend, “Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription”
- Authorizes oral prescriptions and refills of prescription drugs
Alternate name for Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951
Prescription Drug Amendment
The purpose of the Delaney Clause
to prohibit the approval of any food additive that might cause cancer
Two amendments that contain the Delaney Clause
- Food Additives Amendment of 1958
- Color Additives Amendment of 1960
Alternate name of the Kefauver- Harris Amendment of 1962
Drug Efficacy Amendment
Major outcome(s) of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962
1.Strengthened the new drug approval process by requiring that drugs be proved not only safe, but effective. (was made retroactive to all drugs marketed between 1938 and 1962)
2. Transferred jurisdiction of prescription drug advertising from the Federal Trade Commission to the FDA
3. Established the Good Manufacturing Practices requirements
4. Added more extensive controls for clinical investigations by requiring the informed consent of research subjects and reporting of adverse drug effects.
good manufacturing practice (GMP)
guidelines for how manufacturers must make their drugs
Requirements of the Medical Device Amendment of 1976
- Classification of devices according to function
- Premarket approval
- Establishment of performance standards
- Conformance with GMP regulations
- Adherence to record and reporting requirements
Intent of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983
Incentivize the development of drugs for orphan diseases (diseases that affect relatively few people)
How did the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 incentivize its intent
provided tax and exclusive licensing incentives for manufacturers to develop and market drugs or biologics for the treatment of “rare diseases and conditions”
Alternate name for the Drug Price Competition and Patent Terms Restoration Act of 1984
Waxman-Hatch Amendment
Intent of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Terms Restoration Act of 1984
Streamline the generic drug process while giving patient extensions, in certain cases, to innovator drugs. (Making generic drugs more readily available to the public and provide incentives for manufacturers to develop new drugs.)
Requirements of the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987
- Establishes sales restrictions and record keeping requirements for prescription drug samples
- Prohibits hospitals and other healthcare entities from reselling their pharmaceutical purchases to other healthcare entities.
- Requires state licensing of drug wholesalers
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
- Defines dietary supplements and permits manufacturers to make certain claims that would otherwise be illegal under the FDCA.
- Forced FDA to regulate dietary supplements more are food than as drugs
Major intended impacts of the food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997
a.To eliminate backlogs in the approval process and ensure the timely review of applications.
b.Creates fast track approval process for drugs intended for serious or life-threatening diseases
c.Establishes databank of information on clinical investigations.
d.Authorizes scientific panels to review clinical investigations.
e.Expands the rights of manufacturers to disseminate unlabeled use information
f.Expands the FDA’s authority over OTC drugs and establishes ingredient labeling requirements for inactive ingredients.
g.Priority review for breakthrough technologies in medical devices and allowing the FDA to contract with outside scientific experts for review of medical device applications.
Key aspects of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007
a.Allows FDA broader use of the fees generated from PDUFA, while substantially increasing the fees.
b.Provides FDA with significantly enhanced responsibilities and authorization to regulate drug safety, including the authority to mandate labeling changes related to safety, require clinical trial data reporting and registries, require post market clinical studies to assess risks, and require companies to implement risk evaluation and migration strategies.
Purposes of the FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012
a.Primary purpose: reauthorize PDUFA, allows the FDA to continue to collect use fees from manufacturers seeking NDAs or medical device approvals.
b.Adds new user fees to generic drugs and biosimilars
c.Reducing drug counterfeiting, blocking the import of adulterated products, detecting and reducing drug shortages, enhancing the exchange of prescription drug diversion information across state lines.
d.Enables the FDA to inspect foreign drug manufacturers more regularly and requires the agencies to target problematic manufacturing sites in the US or otherwise.
Identify Two Titles of the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013
Title I: Also known as the Compound Quality Act; clarifies and strengthens FDA oversight over pharmacies engaged in the large scale compounding and shipping of sterile products to other licensed entities
Title II: Also known as the Drug Supply Chain Security Act; adds track and trace requirements for all entities in the chain of distribution of pharmaceutical products. Also mandates an electronic, interoperable product tracing system by 2023, strengthens wholesaler and third party logistics licensure requirements and requires manufacturers to serialize drugs by 2017
Impact in the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016
Goal is to streamline and add flexibility and innovation to the drug development and approval processes, primarily by creating new clinical trial design options and by accelerating the pathways to market for drugs intended to treat certain serious or life-threatening diseases
Risk inherent in the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016
Speeding up drug approval in this manner amounts to shortcuts that will endanger public safety.
Acts that are Direct Regulation
- FDCA
- Durham-Humphrey
- Kefauver-Harris
Acts that are Indirect Regulation
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- FDCA
Act that requires companies to implement REMS
Food and Drug Administration Amendments of 2007
Agency that enforces the FDCA and the source of authority
Vested in the FDA (a component of the Department of Health and Human Services)
Two major components of the definition of a drug
- Articles recognized in the official US Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the US, or National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them.
- Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals.
Food
article used for food or drink for man or other animals, chewing gum, and articles used for components of any such article.
Special Dietary Foods
includes, but not limited to those supplying need that exists by reason of physical, physiological, pathological, or other condition (e.g. pregnancy, allergic hypersensitivity, overweight, etc.)
Medical Foods
food formulated for oral or enteral use under the supervision of a physician.
Drug
Articles recognized in the USP or NF. Used to diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals.
Dietary Supplement
product intended for ingestion, intended to supplement the diet, and contains any one or more of the following:
i. A vitamin
ii. A mineral
iii. An herb or botanical
iv. An amino acid
v. A dietary substance for use by humans to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake.
vi. A concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combination of the previous.
Device
instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article.
Cosmetics
articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance.
Label
a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article; and a requirement made by or under authority of this Act that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement, or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the retail package of such article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.
Labeling
all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article.
10 Acts Prohibited by Section 301 of the FDCA
a.The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded.
b.The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic in interstate commerce.
c.The receipt in interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
d.The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any article in violation of section 404 or 505.
e.The refusal to permit access to or copying of any record as required … or the failure to establish or maintain any record, or make any report, required… or the refusal to permit access to or verification or copying of any such required record.
f.The refusal to permit entry or inspection as authorized by section 704
g.The manufacture within any Territory of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded.
h.The doing of any act which causes a drug to be a counterfeit drug, or the sale or dispensing, or the holding for sale or dispensing, of a counterfeit drug.
i.The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce and results in such article being adulterated or misbranded.
j.The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of a dietary supplement that is unsafe under section 413 of this title.
Adulteration
- Consists in while or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance
- Purports to be a drug the name of which is recognized in an official compendium and its strength differs from, or its quality or purity falls below the standards set forth in the compendium
- its strength differs from, or its purity or quality falls below, that which it purports or is represented to possess.
4.If it is a drug and any substance has been (1) mixed or packed therewith so as to reduce its quality or strength or (2) substituted wholly or in part therefore
Misbranding
Focusing on the representation made by the manufacturer on the label or labeling.
1. False or Misleading Labeling
2. Habit-Forming Drugs
3. Established Name Drugs
4. Adequate Directions for Use
5. Adequate Information for Use
6. Imitation Drugs
7. Batch Certification
Four means for the FDA to enforce the FDCA
a.Under 302, the FDA can bring an injunctive action against the violator to cause it to cease its illegal activity.
b.Under 303, the FDA can institute criminal proceedings against violators, resulting in fines, imprisonment, or both.
c.Under 304, the FDA can seize any adulterated or misbranded food, drug, or cosmetic in interstate commerce.
d.Congress added 309 (because of the strict liability nature of 302 and the realization that minor violations of the act should not be subject to criminal prosecution or seizure actions) which allows the FDA to send a warning letter to the violator as a first step when such an action would adequately serve the public interest.
Three Types of Recalls
a.Class I: issued when there is a reasonable probability that the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
b.Class II: occur when the product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, but the probability of serious adverse consequences is remote.
c.Class III: apply to products that are not likely to cause adverse health consequences.
Traditional Pregnancy Warnings
Categories A, B, C, D, X
Three Subsections of Pregnancy Warnings
Pregnancy, Lactation, and Females and Males of Reproductive Potential
First Segment of NDC
Assigned by the FDA and identifies the manufacturer or distributor
Second Segment of NDC
Identifies a specific strength, dosage form, and formulation
Third Segment of NDC
Identifies Package Size and Types
Components that must be included in the new drug application
a. Full reports of investigations showing the drug’s safety and efficacy
b. The drug’s components and composition
c. The methods, facilities, and controls used in manufacturing, processing, and packaging the drug.
d. Samples of the drug and its components
e. The proposed labeling of the drug
GRASE
Generally recognized as safe and effective
S-NDA
Supplemental New Drug Application
Three Procedural Categories of S-NDA
- Prior Approval: Changes in any part of the production, ranging from the synthesis of the drug to the manufacturing processes of the drug to most of the labeling of the drug
- Change Being Effected: For certain types of labeling changes, those that strengthen warnings or dosage or administration information or certain changes in manufacturing methods, facilities, and controls
- Very Minor Changes: editorial changes in labeling or changes in container size (merely need to be reported in the annual report)
IND
Investigational New Drug Application
ANDA
Abbreviated New Drug Application
Phase 1 Trials
Involves a small number of subjects –> determine the safety and detect adverse effects, not for efficacy
Phase 2 Trials
Tested on a limited number of patients who have the disease –> determine the efficacy of the drug and the dosages at which the efficacy occurs
Phase 3 Trials
Tested in 100-1000s of patient (typically in actual clinical settings) –> Looking at efficacy and safety
Phase 4 Trials
Postmarket clinical studies help in determining new uses or abuses for a drug or to obtain additional safety or efficacy data for labeled indications.
REMS
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies
ETASU
Elements to Assure Safe USe
PDUFA
Prescription Drug User Fee Act
FDAAA
Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act
DESI
Drug Efficacy Study Implementation
Definition of biologics
products derived from living organisms
Examples of Biologics
Viruses, therapeutic serums, toxins, antitoxins, vaccines, blood and blood components, and derivatives applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of a disease or condition of humans.
Legislative Acts the regulate biologics
- Public Health Service Act
- FDCA
Amendment of the Constitution that Guarantees the rights to free speech
The First Amendment
Four factors primarily considered when evaluating the governmental regulation of commercial speech
a. The speech must not be misleading or related to an unlawful activity.
b. The government interest in the regulation must be substantial.
c. The regulation must directly advance the government interest asserted.
d. The restriction of speech cannot be more extensive than necessary to serve that interest.
Statute potentially violated when not complying with the OIG Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Federal Anti-Kickback Statute
Factors the FDA will consider in evaluating whether an activity is independent
a.The degree of control the company has over the content of the program.
b.Whether there was adequate disclosure during the program of the company’s funding support
c.The company’s relationship to the presenters
d.Whether any unapproved uses will be discussed.
e.Whether the focus of the program is on educational content and free from commercial influence or bias
f.Whether the audience was selected by the company (as a reward to high prescribers, dispensers, or decision makers)
g.Whether there are promotional activities such as presentations or exhibits in the meeting room
Impacts of the FDASIA of 2012 on social media promotion
a.The first draft guidance addressed interactive promotional media (Defined as technologies that often allow for real-time communications and interactions such as some websites, Twitter, Facebook, live podcasts, and firm blogs. –> States that the FDA’s regulatory authority extends both to product promotional communications carried out by the company as well as conducted by someone else on the company’s behalf.
b.The second provides guidance on using social media platforms with space limitations such as Twitter. –> The clear message is that any communication must have fair balance conveying both benefits and risks in a balanced manner, even though space limitations may pose challenges.
c.The third guidance focuses on how manufacturers should respond, if they choose to do so, to correct third-party misinformation about their product on the Internet and through social media, regardless of whether it appears on the company’s or a third party’s site
Prohibitions in PhRMA’s Code on Interactions with HCPs
a. Prohibits companies from what used to be a common practice of providing entertainment and recreational activities to healthcare professionals, either separate from or in conjunction with an informational or educational program.
b. Prohibits providing healthcare professionals, either directly or at programs, with items, even of minimal value, such as pens, note pads, mugs, or even stethoscopes that do not advance education.
Characteristics of prescription drugs which the FDA has authority to categorize as prescription drugs
a. Unsafe for use except under the supervision of a practitioner because of the toxicity, the method of use, or the collateral measures necessary to use the drug.
b. Subject to the new drug application approval process.
Federal Labeling Requirements
i. The name and address of the dispenser
ii. The serial number and date of the prescription or its filling
iii. The name of the prescriber
iv. The name of the patient
v. The directions for us and cautionary statements
Most states labeling requirements
i. The name, initials, or license number of the dispensing pharmacist
ii. The expiration date or beyond-use date of the drug
iii. The drug’s name, strength, and quantity dispensed.
iv. The address of the patient
v. The name of the manufacturer or distributor
vi. The lot or control number
Two key elements of USP guidance regarding BUDs
- the expiration date on the manufacturer’s container
- 1 year from the date the drug is dispensed
Which Amendment is the source of prescriptive authority?
Durham-Humphrey Amendment
Does the Durham-Humphrey Amendment prohibit pharmacists from prescribing
No
Collaborative Practice Agreement
Allows pharmacists to initiate or adjust drug therapies in collaboration with a physician
Mandatory substitution states
Pharmacists must substitute a less expensive generic drug for the brand name drug, unless the prescriber writes “dispense as written”, “brand necessary”, or a similar notation on the prescription.
Permissive substitution states
Pharmacists may choose to substitute if the prescriber issues the prescription in a way that permits substitution.
Published Book entitled “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Equations”
Orange book
AA
drugs that are available in conventional dosage forms and have no bioequivalence problems
AB
Drugs identified by the FDA as having actual or potential bioequivalence problems, but which have been resolved by adequate scientific evidence
AN
bioequivalent solutions and powders for aerosolization
AO
Bioequivalent injectable oil solutions
AP
Bioequivalent injectable aqueous solutions and some intravenous nonaqueous solutions
AT
Bioequivalent topical drug with no known bioequivalence problems
BC
Drugs in extended-release dosage forms with bioequivalence issues
BD
Active ingredients and dosage forms with documented bioequivalence problems
BE
delayed-release oral dosage forms with potential bioequivalence problems