The need for reliable mail-service pharmacies has been widely cited in the recent firestorm over potential modifications to operations at the United States Postal Service, raising concerns that people are not getting their medications delivered on time. While election-year political
(Washington, D.C.) — The number of independent pharmacies in the United States increased in 2020, according to a new analysis of pharmacy data. Pharmacy data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, analyzed by the healthcare analytics firm Quest
(Washington, D.C.) — The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) released the following statement regarding a white paper released today by the American Diabetes Association on insulin prices: “The American Diabetes Association’s new white paper on insulin prices confirms that drugmakers set, and
Over the last five years, the marketplace for independent pharmacies has experienced small fluctuations from year-to-year sometimes gaining stores, sometimes losing stores. These recent fluctuations in the overall number of stores have not dramatically shifted the independent pharmacy market. Today,
Offering more affordable pharmacy channels are a pharmacy benefit company tool that typically gives patients and health plan sponsors deeper discounts than through the traditional retail pharmacy channel. Over the next 10 years, the use of mail-service and specialty pharmacies
Offering more affordable pharmacy channels are a pharmacy benefit company tool that typically gives patients and health plan sponsors deeper discounts than through the traditional retail pharmacy channel. Over the next 10 years, the use of mail-service and specialty pharmacies
A recent article (“The Corporate Scam that Even Trump Opposes: PBMs”) attacks the one industry that is both reducing prescription drug costs and improving quality: pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). The White House fiscal year 2019 budget included many cost-saving items PBMs have
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the national association representing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), fought to protect access to affordable, quality prescription drug coverage in front of the United States Supreme Court in oral arguments for Rutledge
Thanks to PBMs’ efforts to give patients an incentive to use them and pharmacies an incentive to purchase them at the lowest prices, generics are widely available and affordable for hundreds of millions of Americans.
Over the last several years, it has become increasingly apparent that there is a growing data discrepancy between reports that rely on data from the independent pharmacy advocate and the lobbyist organization – National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the
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