KB Brown’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Walgreens shut its W. Broadway store last year, leaving one pharmacy to serve 67,000 residents in the north Minneapolis area where he lives and runs his ...
U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski played host to a Nov. 2 roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy to discuss ...
The South Dakota Republican has a track record on telehealth, supporting rural hospitals, accountability for pharmacy benefit ...
Steve Anderson said there remains an urgent need for the current 118th Congress to reform the tactics of market-dominant ...
However, rising medication costs and complex pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) practices are making it harder for rural ...
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PhRMA is pushing to get pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform over the line in Congress’ lame-duck session, using its first ...
“The traditional pharmacy, the dispensing model is not gonna survive,” McDonough said. While pharmacy closures are an obvious challenge to patient access, he says some pharmacies are reducing hours or ...
When a well-established local pharmacy can’t fill a prescription because doing so would cost the pharmacy money, it signals a ...
At the top of the list are pharmacy benefit managers and the roadblocks they create ... there have been important efforts to rein in these middlemen who drive up costs for vulnerable patients. Current ...
The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...