This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice cream, homemade cake ...
The FDA removed Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Zepbound from its drug shortage list for the first time in two years. The move ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CVS expects elevated medical costs to continue to pressure its performance this year, “and as a result we are not providing a ...
Independent pharmacies have filed 3 class action lawsuits against GoodRx Holdings and major pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Doha Mekki, the No. 2 official in the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, said her agency is investigating whether ...
It remains to be seen how well President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will actually work in lowering prescription drug ...