Big Molecule Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

According to the findings, more than 90% of all prescriptions filled in 2022 were for generic or biosimilar drugs, despite these medications accounting for less than 18% of the total prescription drug expenditure and a mere 2% of the overall U.S. Notably, the U.S. healthcare spending.

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Biosimilars Prescription Filling 69

assurecare

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This challenge is particularly prevalent in independent community pharmacies, where owners and managers juggle various roles, from prescription filling to team management and clinical services provision.

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Community Pharmacies Prescription Filling 52

pharmaphorum

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2008, CVS Caremark, a prescription benefit management company, signed on to use Microsoft’s HealthVault. Consumers could keep track of their prescriptions filled at CVS pharmacy or through Caremark and were able to save copies of their health records and share them with family members, physicians or third parties of their choice.

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Prescription Filling 119

Digital Pharmacist

JULY 11, 2023

By providing regular check-ins, medication adjustments, and lifestyle advice, pharmacies can build long-term relationships with patients, resulting in increased prescription fills and customer loyalty.

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Independent Pharmacies Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Compounding Scheduling Appointments 98

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

JANUARY 31, 2024

Further, a lack of interoperability between pharmacy systems can prevent electronic data sharing between competing pharmacies, which can be frustrating for patients, prescribers, and pharmacy staff when prescriptions are sent to the wrong pharmacy or the patient decides to have the prescription filled elsewhere.

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Digital Pharmacist

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Streamline Transfers : If your community is being impacted by retail chain closure, then there are likely many frustrated patients in your community who are in need of getting their prescriptions filled quickly.

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Independent Pharmacies Health and Personal Care Stores Community Pharmacies Prescription Filling 105

Ramblings of a pharmacist

JUNE 28, 2022

Without that, I was lost trying to fulfill prescriptions or even just putting up inventory on the shelf when the order arrived. In 2004, generic drugs were less than half of prescriptions filled, so shelving things by brand name made sense. Ten years later, I started pharmacy school and worked at Gateway Apothecary in St.

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Proxsys Rx

DECEMBER 8, 2022

340B program support fee structures In general, you should avoid TPAs that charge fees for every pharmacy prescription fill they assess. Even with a per-prescription fee as low as 24¢, your health system could be paying enormous 340B program process fees. Maximizing) 340B prescription matching comes into play.

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Prescription Filling Hospitals Documentation 52

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Within one month of each comprehensive review, the pharmacy must prepare a written report identifying prescriptions filled that were not issued for a legitimate medical purpose or filled outside the usual course of the professional practice of pharmacy, and prescriptions in violation of the permanent injunction terms.

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Controlled Substances Documentation Dosage Prescription Filling 139

PharmD Live

MAY 13, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes a significant increase in prescriptions filled for American seniors from 1999 to 2012, enhancing the risks associated with medication use.

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Long-Term Care Facilities Diabetes Nursing Homes Prescription Filling 105

Proxsys Rx

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“Knowing that, she’d asked her next-door-neighbor for help getting her prescription — which had been phoned-into the pharmacy. The neighbor (and, I might add, good friend), waited at the pharmacy for two hours — and still wasn’t able to get the prescription filled.

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Insurance Coverage and Processing Hospitals Prescription Filling Specialty Pharmacies 52

ID Stewardship

JUNE 6, 2023

Streamlined Prescription Filling : AI systems can automate prescription filling processes by extracting relevant information from electronic prescriptions, verifying insurance coverage, and generating labels. Faster and more accurate prescription filling leads to increased patient satisfaction.

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Insurance Coverage and Processing Prescription Filling Hospitals Medication Dispensing 52

pharmacy mentor

MARCH 12, 2023

Patients typically visited in person – purchasing their medication, asking pharmacist’s advice, and getting their prescriptions filled. It was a simpler time, but it had its limitations. People generally wouldn’t consider the pharmacy their first port of call for healthcare.

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Community Pharmacies Online Pharmacies Prescription Filling Packaging 97

The Happy PharmD

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The convenience of receiving prescriptions at home is appealing, but its coming at a hidden cost. Over the past decade, mail order pharmacy sales have more than doubled, growing from $86 billion to over $206 billion, yet the number of prescriptions filled through mail order only increased by 11%.

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Mail-Order Pharmacies Grocery Stores Prescription Filling Drug Pricing 52

Digital Pharmacist

JULY 3, 2023

Level of Liability Exposure : Evaluate the nature and extent of potential liability claims your pharmacy may face, such as errors in prescription filling or adverse drug reactions. Potential Loss Due to Business Interruption : Estimate the financial impact if your pharmacy temporarily ceases operations due to unexpected events.

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Insurance Coverage and Processing Prescription Filling 52

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

JUNE 6, 2022

This is the gap that new mental health start-ups offering therapy and prescriptions for conditions such as anxiety, depression, insomnia, substance use disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have aimed to fill.

Online Pharmacies 52

Online Pharmacies Controlled Substances Prescription Filling 52

Digital Pharmacist

DECEMBER 22, 2023

According to the NCPA 2023 Digest , 24 percent of pharmacies are currently using robotics for compliance packaging and it is anticipated that number will grow in 2024 and robotics will play an increasing role in prescription filling, reducing wait times, and enhancing medication management precision.

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Community Pharmacies Prescription Filling Medication Delivery Packaging 52

Digital Pharmacist

JULY 21, 2022

At this time patients are also unable to get all of their prescriptions filled from MCCPDC; they only offer certain medications at the moment and no controls are included. The personal care and connection one receives at an independent pharmacy will also be missing for the patients filling from MCCPDC.

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Independent Pharmacies Prescription Filling Online Pharmacies 52

Proxsys Rx

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“Knowing that, she’d asked her next-door-neighbor for help getting her prescription — which had been phoned-into the pharmacy. The neighbor (and, I might add, good friend), waited at the pharmacy for two hours — and still wasn’t able to get the prescription filled.

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Insurance Coverage and Processing Hospitals Prescription Filling Specialty Pharmacies 40

pharmaphorum

MAY 10, 2022

Hutnik shared a story from her experience where tracking community adoption of a therapy helped them to target more receptive communities, leading to prescription fills almost eight times higher. And I think this is well doable now.”. Advice for communicators.

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Proxsys Rx

MAY 16, 2024

Here’s what that model looks like for 340B hospital clients These vendors typically charge a fee of around 10%-15% on every prescription filled in the hospital-owned pharmacy they manage.

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Specialty Pharmacies Hospitals Prescription Filling 52

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

MAY 6, 2022

California: A law passed in September 2021 prohibits using “metrics,” like a quota on number of prescriptions filled, to evaluate a pharmacist’s productivity. Here’s what a few boards have done: Oklahoma: The Board created a form that pharmacists can use to report unsafe working conditions , like inadequate staffing.

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Mayo Clinic Pharmacy Technician Prescription Filling Documentation 40

pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Between December 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019, 65% of erectile dysfunction prescriptions filled were for Viagra or its generic version 12. RESULT: Pfizer still holds a lead in the erectile dysfunction market even as generics erode sales. Prilosec – Benchmark for franchise management.

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Prescription Filling Drug Pricing Biosimilars Compounding 52

The Happy PharmD

APRIL 26, 2023

But most pharmacies should be able to obtain it in a day or two if they need to fill a patient’s prescription especially since my girlfriend was a regular customer of this pharmacy. She has all her prescriptions filled at one particular pharmacy. She had it filled at another pharmacy. The directions were incorrect.

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Dosage Hospitals Pharmacy Technician Prescription Filling 52

Quality Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

A regulator’s ability to enforce quality standards, a manufacturer’s ability to adhere to them, and a region’s capacity to produce and ensure supplies of quality medicines, for example, help make sure that patients can get their prescriptions filled at local pharmacies and trust that the medicines they receive will be safe and work as they should.

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Prescription Filling Generic Medicine Packaging Labelling 52

pharmacy mentor

MARCH 13, 2023

Enhancing patient privacy: Pharmacies guarantee that patient data is kept private and secure by using blockchain to store patient prescription data. Streamlining prescription filling : Blockchain would allow quick and secure accessing of patient prescription data, allowing more efficient and accurate dispensing.

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Prescription Filling 52

Proxsys Rx

MARCH 23, 2023

Consider this cost-plus drug company model A recently-launched company uses a Cash Pay business model to sell the generic drugs they manufacturer, offering end users prescription discounts based on their costs (plus a 15% markup and a pharmacy-labor fee) for all prescriptions filled through them.

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Drug Pricing Hospitals Prescription Filling Dosage 52

Proxsys Rx

JULY 5, 2023

That process involved their research into ProxsysRx’s processes and prescription-filling practices — as well as a lengthy interview with Phil. Wholesalers have added a new set of complications for “new accounts” — which is what we were considered, in the state of Massachusetts.

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Hospitals Inpatient Prescription Filling Controlled Substances 52

Quality Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2021

can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should. In fact, quality standards are a big reason why we in the U.S. You can’t have a strong medicines supply chain without safe, quality health products.

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Adverse Reactions Prescription Filling Compounding 52

Proxsys Rx

MARCH 12, 2024

Health systems with high-volume 340B programs, for instance, should avoid TPAs that charge fees for every pharmacy prescription-fill they assess. A fee structure that consistently generates net-positive returns. An onsite 340B outpatient pharmacy A well-managed retail pharmacy will generate exceptional revenue for your health system.

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Specialty Pharmacies Hospitals Prescription Filling 52

The Happy PharmD

JUNE 26, 2023

I knew how the pharmacists and the techs scurried around the prescription department. They typed labels, talked to doctors and patients, and focused on the daily number of prescriptions filled. To me, this was pharmacy— not what I learned in college.

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Hospitals Labelling Prescription Filling Pharmacy Management 52

Ramblings of a pharmacist

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I’ll also note that I’m not certain that the “Pharmacy” revenue is ONLY prescription fills. Digest per prescription revenue figure is believable (it’s also down about $6 since I started paying attention to the Digest , hence my annoyance at people that blame pharmacists for “skyrocketing drug prices.”

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Independent Pharmacies Compounding Specialty Pharmacies Prescription Filling 52

Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Prior authorization and association with delayed or discontinued prescription fills. Retrieved from [link] www.ama-assn.org/system/files/prior-authorization-survey.pdf 3 Kyle, M. and Keating, N. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(8). link] 4 Chino, F., and Thom, B. The patient experience of prior authorization for cancer care.

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Putting Patients First Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Prior authorization and association with delayed or discontinued prescription fills. Retrieved from https ://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/prior-authorization-survey.pdf xi Kyle, M. and Keating, N. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(8). link] xii Chino, F., and Thom, B. The patient experience of prior authorization for cancer care.

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Drug Pricing Insurance Coverage and Processing Labelling HIPAA 52

Putting Patients First Blog

MAY 29, 2024

Prior authorization and association with delayed or discontinued prescription fills. Retrieved from https ://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/prior-authorization-survey.pdf 8 Kyle, M. and Keating, N. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(8). link] 9 Chino, F., and Thom, B. The patient experience of prior authorization for cancer care.

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Insurance Coverage and Processing Communication Prescription Filling Hospitals 52

Putting Patients First Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

12 Mark Kyle and Natalie Keating, “Prior Authorization and Association with Delayed or Discontinued Prescription Fills,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 42, no. 1 (February 14, 2023): 1023, [link] 10 Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, Assessment of Barriers to Fair Access Report , 2024, [link] Report-121924.pdf.

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Quality Matters

JUNE 12, 2023

Accounting for approximately 90% of prescriptions filled in the United States , generic medicines are essential to increasing patient access to important drug therapies. Complex generics: The need and challenges Generic medicines have benefited millions of Americans and saved trillions of dollars.

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