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Mapping the crisis: How data can help fix America’s growing pharmacy deserts

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These closures, compounded by the decline of independent pharmacies, create a critical gap in care. Today, 45% of US counties meet the definition of a pharmacy desert. Nearly one in seven Americans already live in a pharmacy desert, and that number continues to climb, particularly in rural and low-income communities.

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Pharmacists Reimagine Myeloma Care With Insights from ASCO

Pharmacy Times

I can't use elranatamab in frontline today, but based on what we’ve seen, I’m definitely excited to see more data emerge. We're not going to have payer support to use these drugs frontline right now. But this data helps frame our point of reference for future decision-making. Hinojosa : OPC is my favorite meeting of the year.

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Pharmacists Can Provide Travel Health Tips for Patients

Pharmacy Times

Measles outbreak case definition. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023;51:102494. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102494 2022.102494 2. How to prevent norovirus. January 13, 2025. Accessed April 28, 2025. Travelers’ health. Accessed April 28, 2025. Texas Department of State Health Services. Updated April 10, 2025. Accessed April 28, 2025.

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Atrium Health: Pioneering Outpatient Transplant Models Driven by Pharmacist-Led Care

Pharmacy Times

Medication adherence is hard, so we haven't tracked medication adherence, but it is definitely something that for every patient we are looking at, we are trying to help them with. We're tracking pharmacist interventions to see what all the pharmacist is doing with each patient and looking at cost savings that go along with that.

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NHC Submits Comments on CMS Draft Guidance for IPAY 2028

Putting Patients First Blog

At the same time, the NHC recommends that CMS avoid incorporating the MFP into ASP calculations, as doing so could depress reimbursement rates across both Medicare and commercial markets, compounding access risks and straining provider viability. A first priority is clarifying how providers should submit claims for drugs subject to the MFP.

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Reinventing Transplant Care: From Inpatient Tradition to Outpatient Innovation

Pharmacy Times

That is something we have definitely taken from transplant and shared with our other bispecific programs—especially now that we do bispecifics in solid tumors.

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Pharmacists Take the Lead on Advanced Therapeutics

Pharmacy Times

I’m coming at it from the perspective of understanding the science behind it… When you talk about manipulating genes, that definitely tends to put some people off,” she said. “I Trinkman noted the hesitancy some patients have shown toward gene therapies, emphasizing the need for greater education about how these therapies work.