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It’s High Time We Consider Differential Reimbursement
All fills are not equal in their complexity and cost.
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Queuing Customers? There’s an App for That
With the rest of the retail world catching up with pharmacy queuing, will it change customer expectations at the counter?
Nonpharmacists Make the Pharmacy World Go Round
Pharmacy technicians are evolving to new roles, working with new teammates
Pharmacoequity Comes to the Center of Care Delivery for Underserved Patients
Despite the economic and structural support, rural, poor, and underserved communities still have wide disparities in health outcomes.
An Untold Cost Center in Pharmacy: Shipping. Yes, Shipping.
Our wacky health care system can’t pay pharmacies a few more dollars to survive, but we can spend billions of dollars on shipping costs.
Blue Shield of California Drops Major PBM: Will It Be a One-Off or the First Domino?
Frustrations with the current means of achieving price discrimination have reached a boiling point, but the future remains uncertain.
Predicting Vaccine Demand for the 2023-2024 Fall/Winter Season
The pharmacy is no longer considered to offer full service (or to be financially sustainable) without a robust vaccination practice.
OTC Oral Contraceptive May Break More Precedent Than Expected
As patient access, public health advocates flex their muscles to reduce barriers to care, products, will that continue to translate in marketplace?
You Mean We Should Do This Year-Round?
Navigating the Transition to Year-Round Immunization
Congratulations, Graduates! You Are Entering the Profession at the Peak of Simultaneous Opportunity and Peril
Never have there been so many opportunities for non–dispensing pharmacist roles. At the same time, there has never been such a need to save the dispensing environment.
Is Discontinuing Insurance for Generic Medications a Good or Bad Idea?
Recent editorial calls into question role, use of drug coverage for medications that often cost pennies to procure.
Let's Continue to Appreciate Nonpharmacist Employees
Technicians, other support staff stepped up during the pandemic and took on new responsibilities, which should earn them permanent respect.
Pharmacists, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants, Oh My!
Unlike in The Wizard of Oz, there may be more of a scare than actual danger from non-physicians prescribing diagnostics, treatments
Watch Out for Overcorrections, Unintended Consequences
After not paying attention, looking other way for years, is the pharmacy industry letting patients down again by employing crude methods of controlled substances monitoring?
What Walgreens Now Understands, Mark Cuban Misses (for the Time Being)
For almost half a century, the pharmacy business pulled away from serving patients into retailing, spreadsheet wars; COVID-19 changed the game.
Pharmacy Networks Play Musical Chairs
Every change in participation offers the opportunity to self-channel to community pharmacies or mail order.
Here We Go Again: Projecting and Prognosticating for the 2022-2023 Fall/Winter Season in the Time of Endemic COVID-19
Loosened restrictions will likely create a more pronounced influenza season this fall.
Going Vertical: Acquisition Magnitude, Pace to Achieve Integration Heat Up
As pharmacy conglomerates race toward controlling patient journey, community pharmacist role remains murky.
Cash Pay Mail-Order Pharmacy Emerges
Another market innovation continues the bifurcation of the profession's practice as community pharmacies become generics businesses.
SBIRT Spells Cornerstone of Future Pharmacy Practice
Our health care system flunks every available test of public health and population management readiness and response; it is time to call in the cavalry.
FTC Wades Into World of Pharmacy Markets
In a sector that relies heavily on opacity, who knows what might be found in the government's inquiry?
After a Rare Mild 2020-2021 Season, Influenza Is Back
Rates of influenza and associated hospitalizations demand late-season vigilance.
Seize the Opportunity to Help Those Who Need Special OTC Counseling
Pharmacists possess abundant knowledge about health modalities and medications that they should share with patients.
Do New DIR Rules Increase Transparency or Accelerate Patient-Member Channeling?
Fees are now so large that "hiding the cheese" will be harder to accomplish in a year and a half.
What Is the Future of Brand-Name Dispensing?
Community pharmacies may become generics-only dispensers unless manufacturers rethink the bifurcation of prescription drugs.
Lifelong Skills You Didn't Learn in School
With additional responsibilities and a wider scope of services comes the need for more effective and efficient delegation.
FDA, AMA Deem Pharmacists Unsafe for Test and Treat
Will expansions in scope of authority stick, or have the effectiveness and speed of pharmacy adoption of services moved the medical establishment to battle stations?
Is It a Job or a Career?
Technicians have become so much more essential in pharmacies and to patients than their titles imply.
Pharmacies Can Win the Reimbursement Battle and Still Lose Their Livelihood
Breadth, intensity of vertical integration keeps growing, leaving pharmacies' future role uncertain.
Absurdity and Gaming of Star Ratings Measures Are Growing (Part 2)
Pay for outcomes is here to stay. What therapeutic end points to evaluate success are on the horizon?