Walgreen Co. will stay in Express Scripts Inc.’s pharmacy network for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and has offered continued access for the pharmacy benefit manager under the Department of Defense Tricare program.
The “super committee” seeking ways to cut the federal deficit should maintain Medicare recipients’ access to diabetes testing supplies at retail pharmacies, says National Association of Chain Drug Stores president and chief executive officer Steve Anderson.
Change never comes easily, especially for a company blessed with success. Why change, the thinking goes, when what we’re doing apparently works so well? That’s been Walgreens’ dilemma. Very few retailers, and no drug chains, have enjoyed the success Walgreens has found over the past 30 years.
It’s time for people in the chain drug industry to take another look at Rite Aid, whose long, painful turnaround has started to gain traction in recent months. For more than a decade the company has been widely viewed as something of an invalid, a status that resulted from self-inflicted wounds.
Perrigo Co. and its partner Synthon Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that Perrigo has begun shipping levocetirizine solution, 2.5 mg/5ml. Perrigo said Monday that the product is a generic version of UCB’s Xyzal Oral Solution, indicated for the treatment of indoor and outdoor allergies.
QS/1 and ECR Software Corp. (ECRS) have released an interface linking the QS/1 NRx pharmacy management system with the ECRS Catapult point-of-sale system.
In Texas, a new mandate requiring a meningitis immunization for all college students has led MinuteClinic to boost its availability of the vaccine in the state. The CVS Caremark Corp.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has created two awards to recognize pharmacists who provide superior medication adherence services to patients.
Procter & Gamble Co. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. have formed a partnership and joint venture in consumer health care. The companies said Thursday that they will develop new over-the-counter medicine brands.
CVS/pharmacy and Direct Relief USA partnered to provide free flu vaccinations at a flu shot clinic in Dallas. CVS said that at the clinic, held Thursday, CVS pharmacists vaccinated uninsured patients at Healing Hands Ministries Medical & Dental Clinic.
A national coalition of pharmacists and pharmacy owners has begun a public information campaign focusing on what they say are inflated prescription drug prices set by pharmacy benefit managers.
Walgreens pharmacists and DeKalb Medical have teamed up to help patients understand and comply with medication therapies after treatment at the hospital.
Meijer has kicked off a chainwide effort to boost its pharmacy expertise in diabetes by training more than 200 pharmacists as diabetes specialists.
This month, CVS Caremark Corp. plans to host live Facebook chats to answer patients’ questions about diabetes and chronic condition management.
Community pharmacists joined with consumers and small-business owners and lawmakers in a press conference organized by the Preserve Community Pharmacy Access NOW! (PCPAN) coalition to urge Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to oppose the proposed merger of Express Scripts Inc.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has endorsed legislation that would give states incentive to use generic drugs through their Medicaid programs. NACDS said Thursday that it has sent a letter to Rep. Charles Bass (R., N.H.
