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STAT
JULY 9, 2024
Moreover, the FTC found the prescription drug market is “highly concentrated” because the largest PBMs are owned by insurers and, in turn, own specialty, mail order, or retail pharmacies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
STAT
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Three independent pharmacies have filed separate lawsuits accusing GoodRx, which markets a prescription drug discount card, of conspiring with several pharmacy benefit managers to fix reimbursement fees, the latest skirmish over the opaque pharmaceutical supply chain in the U.S. and, consequently, represent a lucrative market.
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STAT
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The bipartisan bill , which would require divestiture within three years, is aimed at what the lawmakers call an “inherent conflict of interest” that has forced Americans to pay more for medicines and hastened the demise of independent pharmacies.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
” The lawsuit also alleged the FTC “followed prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics, and wrongly concluded that PBMs inflate drug costs and harm independent pharmacies.” ” FTC Chair Lina Khan was also accused of “anti-PBM bias.”
The Pharmacist
APRIL 12, 2024
Brothers Chris and Jonathan Lo, of Lo's Pharmacy Group, speak about why they chose a hub and spoke approach and the impact it has had on their business Lo’s Pharmacy Group, based in South Yorkshire, introduced a hub and spoke model of dispensing for their original pack repeat prescriptions over a year ago.
The Pharmacist
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Increases to Employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NIC) and National Living Wage (NLW) outlined in the Autumn Budget could cost an average community pharmacy premises more than £12,000 each year - totalling around £125m across the sector as a whole.
Digital Pharmacist
OCTOBER 26, 2023
By understanding what led retail pharmacy team members to take these drastic actions, we can look at what independent pharmacies can do to avoid similar issues and also how independents can help members of these communities affected by the closures of retail chains.
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