Pharmacy/Independent Pharmacy

The hacking shut down the nation’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging...

Yahoo News Wondering where he could get prescription diabetic shoes after his neighborhood Davidsville Mainline Pharmacy closes, Jim Carr...

Simmering tensions in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry have turned into fault lines. The PBMs challenging the "big three"...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2024 Community Pharmacists Call Attention to Increasing Prescription Drug Costs, Decreased Access to Care and Emerging Pharmacy Deserts Correlated to Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practices  SPRINGFIELD, IL (March 5, 2024) – Illinois pharmacists will gather at the State Capitol today to rally in support of HB 4548  and SB 2790 , proposed legislation which would eliminate controversial practices by prescription drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2024 “Every day that passes without PBM reform is a day a community in America risks losing access to a pharmacy, its most readily available healthcare provider. ”  PHOENIX, AZ (February 27, 2024) – The Executive Board of Directors of Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency ( PUTT ) issued the following statement after Congress’ decision to eliminate pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform provisions in the government’s latest funding pa

The Times-Tribune Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he...

HEALTH CARE un-covered Authors: WENDELL POTTER & BRIAN KLEPPER Consolidating and cornering health-care markets In November, Optum...

Kentucky Lantern Four years after leading the effort to cut corporate middlemen out of the prescription drug business for Kentucky’s...

2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs. MedCity News 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the...

Fox News 2 For nearly 30 years, Betty Whitcomb’s trusted this independently owned pharmacy in Overland for her pills. “He just lets me...

Actions add a dour note to the new year Pharmacy Practice News Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have responded to the new Centers for...

The New York Times is looking into pharmacy benefit managers, which play crucial roles in determining which medications your insurance...

Chain Drug Review A new television ad from NACDS urges Congress to enact bipartisan pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms that it has...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 9, 2024 Governor’s Plan Includes Ending Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practice of Overcharging for Prescriptions, Ensuring No One is Forced to Choose Between Life-saving Medicine and Rent WINSTON-SALEM, NC (January 9, 2024) – Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) applauds Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs for her plan to bring soaring prescription drug prices under control by regulating how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) establish the pric

STAT+ The Biden administration seemed to be giving pharmacies a win when they forced pharmacy benefit managers to be more up-front about...

Osterhaus Pharmacy in Iowa is also behind a similar suit against CVS Caremark. Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: UnitedHealth and its pharmacy...

To listen to this news interview on NPR, click here Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point....

Forbes Patients, the ultimate healthcare arbiter, continue to bear the costs from the perverse incentives driving the pharmacy benefit...

Oregon Live | Business When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones would not subside, his doctor had a hunch what was wrong....