“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 ...

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).

It remains to be seen how well President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will actually work in lowering prescription drug ...

Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty ...

The owner of one of the three largest pharmacy middlemen in the United States last month filed suit to quash an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to investigate industry ...

One local pharmacy director says the way drugs are priced and then supplied to drugstores is partially to blame.

Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) will host a roundtable discussion with independent pharmacists on Saturday, November 2, ...