Kerr Drug has introduced Simplify My Meds, a synchronized prescription refill service. The North Carolina drug chain said Monday that Simplify My Meds leverages capabilities brought by the company’s new central-fill facility in Raleigh and extends its menu of refill services.
Despite upcoming Medicare changes, CVS/pharmacy will continue to accept Part B coverage for diabetes supplies. CVS said Monday that the number of providers that will accept Medicare coverage for diabetes testing supplies is slated to decrease after July 1 as a result of changes to the program.
Bruce Bodaken, former chairman and chief executive officer of Blue Shield of California, has been elected to the Rite Aid Corp. board of directors. The addition of Bodaken, announced Monday, comes amid changes to the makeup of Rite Aid’s board.
Shaping public policy is vital to improving patient outcomes, Bob Narveson said in his first remarks as chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
Three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, CVS Caremark Corp. began to position itself to respond to the changes that are currently transforming the health care system. The merger that brought together the nation’s second-largest drug chain and No.
Rite Aid Corp.’s “wellness store” concept has reached a milestone. The drug chain said it has converted almost 100 stores in the greater Buffalo, N.Y., area to the wellness format, making that market the first to have the concept for most of its stores.
After almost a year without a chief executive officer, Pharmasave Drugs has named former grocery executive Carmen Churcott as its CEO.
Beginning last August on roughly a monthly basis, Chain Drug Review explored in some detail the findings of an annual survey on pharmacy customer satisfaction conducted for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has hailed the Senate for passing legislation establishing Internet sales taxes. The Marketplace Fairness Act passed the Senate this month in a 69-to-27 vote.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has joined forces with advocates for patients, providers and health plans in an alliance designed to highlight the role pharmacy can play in improving wellness and curbing health care costs.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy has opened its 33rd store. Executives say the 10,000-square-foot store, located on NW 7th Street in Miami, will target Hispanics from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba, offering such unique offerings as Latino hair care products, beer and nectar drinks.
Two of the industry’s largest drug wholesalers said last month that CVS Caremark Corp. will continue to be their customer. McKesson Corp. and Cardinal Health Inc. announced in late April that the Woonsocket, R.I.-based chain has agreed to renew its relationship with them for the next several years.
The vast majority of the country will be unaffected by the implementation of the Affordable Care Act next year, president Barack Obama says. “The main message I want to give to the American people here is — despite all the hue and cry and ‘sky is falling’ predictions about this stuff — if
One of the overlooked events at the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores was the departure, after a year of service, of Walgreens chief executive Greg Wasson as NACDS chairman.
A recent spate of studies about different aspects of health care, while embodying many contradictions, points to a period of ferment, the likes of which has not been seen since Medicare and Medicaid were put in place during the Johnson administration in the mid-1960s.
What should retailers do when the best-prepared plans still lead to the question, “Where are all the customers?” Here’s what to do: Prepare some new plans.
