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Top Clinical Services for Boosting Your Pharmacy’s Revenue

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Chronic Disease Management Independent pharmacies can play a crucial role in managing chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Compounding provides pharmacies with a competitive advantage through this greater ability to serve customers.

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Too Much of a Good Thing? Unpacking the Rise of Polypharmacy in Seniors

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However, aging also brings about physiological and pathological changes that increase the risk of developing multiple chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes. Care Fragmentation: Elderly patients frequently consult multiple healthcare providers for various health issues.

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Complex generics: The need and challenges

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Accounting for approximately 90% of prescriptions filled in the United States , generic medicines are essential to increasing patient access to important drug therapies. Patients rely on complex generic drug products for many indications, including chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma. According to the U.S.

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ProxsysRx’s MedServRx: The Prescription-Drug Advantage For Patients And Their Providers

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The growing problem of prescription non-adherence According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, nearly 1/3 of all prescriptions are never filled by patients, and up to half of medications for chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension are never taken.

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World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain

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can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should. By enabling a multi-manufacturer environment, USP standards have helped increase the availability of medicines to treat cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, mental health and many other conditions.

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NHC Comments on Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Draft Guidance, Implementation of Sections 1191 – 1198 of the Social Security Act for Initial Price Applicability Year 2027 and Manufacturer Effectuation of the Maximum Fair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

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Similarly, long-acting insulin analogs provide more stable blood sugar control and reduce the number of daily injections needed for diabetes patients. Prior authorization and association with delayed or discontinued prescription fills. and Keating, N. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(8). link] xii Chino, F., and Thom, B.

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NHC Submits Comments to CMS RE CY 2026 Policy & Technical Changes to MA and Part D Proposed Rule

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The NHC recognizes that Medicare already covers AOMs for patients who are overweight and have comorbid conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease. 12 Mark Kyle and Natalie Keating, “Prior Authorization and Association with Delayed or Discontinued Prescription Fills,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 42, no.