Drug Channels

JUNE 18, 2024

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for Friday’s live video webinar: The 340B Drug Pricing Program: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook. Last week, we documented the substantial concentration of dispensing revenues for specialty drugs. Click here to see the original post from April 2024.

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Specialty Pharmacies Drug Pricing Documentation 52

Drug Channels

JULY 21, 2020

Last week, I documented that nearly half of U.S. pharmacies now participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Below, we update our exclusive analysis of the biggest specialty pharmacies within 340B. Hospitals are the primary 340B covered entities that engage with these specialty pharmacies.

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Specialty Pharmacies Drug Pricing Documentation Hospitals 52

Putting Patients First Blog

JULY 2, 2024

General Comments The NHC appreciates CMS’ commitment to actively engaging with stakeholders, including patients, consumer advocates, and health experts, in implementing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (DPNP). This includes collecting data on utilization management practices, formulary changes, and patient experiences.

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Drug Pricing Insurance Coverage and Processing HIPAA Labelling 52

Drug Channels

MARCH 15, 2022

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , our 13th edition, provides a comprehensive, fact-based, and non-partisan tool for understanding the entire U.S. drug pricing, reimbursement, and dispensing system. The 2022 Economic Report on U.S. The chart below illustrates the depth and breadth of the 2022 edition.

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Specialty Pharmacies Drug Pricing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Documentation 84

Proxsys Rx

APRIL 19, 2024

HRSA issues “Administrative Dispute Resolution” ruling On April 19, HRSA issued a ruling entitled “340B Drug Pricing Program; Administrative Dispute Resolution.” Understand, and master, your 340B specialty pharmacy opportunities. The 340B revenue potential of specialty pharmacy is staggering.

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Specialty Pharmacies Hospitals Drug Pricing Packaging 52

Ramblings of a pharmacist

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The survey attempts to account for the differences in financial reports between pharmacies by asking specific questions about the major points of contention in accounting practices (how do you categorize your rebates? I presume that their fill-at-specialty-pickup-at-retail program counts these rx revenues in the specialty pharmacy division.

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Independent Pharmacies Compounding Specialty Pharmacies Prescription Filling 52

Ramblings of a pharmacist

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I consult with pharmacies to help them understand “DIR fees” – the post-adjudication fees that PBMs contractually force upon pharmacies as a condition of accepting taxpayer-subsidized Medicare Part D business. These fees, as documented by CMS, have increased by 109,000% in the past 10 years.

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Grocery Stores Specialty Pharmacies Drug Pricing Documentation 40