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Supplement Patient Care with a Registered Dietetic Technician Nutritionist

PioneerRx

More independent pharmacies are realizing that healthcare is undergoing a huge shift. According to Amina Abubakar in her most recent update, “As of 2019

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Your Hospital’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Network Is Not What It Should Be.

Proxsys Rx

Since 2019, when ProxsysRx launched its 340B Support Services division, we’ve managed the 340B programs of 18 health systems. Pick a pharmacy mismatched to your hospital’s dispensing patterns, and you could easily end-up spending more in fees for them than they generate for you in 340B savings. Pharmacy fee structures can vary wildly.

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Your Hospital’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Network Is Not What It Should Be.

Proxsys Rx

Since 2019, when ProxsysRx launched its 340B Support Services division, we’ve managed the 340B programs of 18 health systems. Pick a pharmacy mismatched to your hospital’s dispensing patterns, and you could easily end-up spending more in fees for them than they generate for you in 340B savings.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a FTC PBM report, a Kroger deal on opioids, and more news

STAT

Last year, the agency released its first interim staff report that found dominant, vertically integrated PBMs use their outsized market share to profit off of patients and independent pharmacists.

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Vitals in e-prescriptions

Ramblings of a pharmacist

On November 27, 2019, I posted the following article to my LinkedIn page. 2) All of these BPs are coming from two health systems (but oddly not every clinic in these systems), both of which use Epic (specifically EpicCare version February 2019). That was an excellent move. The other, St.

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NHC Comments on Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Draft Guidance, Implementation of Sections 1191 – 1198 of the Social Security Act for Initial Price Applicability Year 2027 and Manufacturer Effectuation of the Maximum Fair Price (MFP) in 2026 and 2027

Putting Patients First Blog

NHC comments to the FTC on PBM business practices and the impact on independent pharmacies and consumers. Retrieved from [link] iii National Health Council. Retrieved from [link] content/uploads/2022/05/NHC-FTC-PBM-Comments-Final-Plain-Letterhead.pdf iv Kyle, M., Blendon, R., and Schnieder, E. Casalino, L., and Richman, B. Hochberg M.,

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2275 pharmacies have closed so far in 2024

Ramblings of a pharmacist

drop in number of pharmacy locations nationwide. in JAMA in 2019 , for example, shows that an average of 1631 pharmacies closed each year as reported in NCPDP from 2010 to 2015, with and average of 2435 pharmacies opening each year for a net average figure of 804 openings every year in that period.