Rx provides help with Part D enrollment
Chain drug pharmacies and pharmacists are helping Medicare beneficiaries navigate the changes in Medicare Part D.
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Walgreens plays host to the first lady
First lady Michelle Obama toured a Walgreen Co. store on Chicago’s South Side to get an up-close look at the drug chain’s efforts to provide better food options and accessible health care to underserved communities and to fight the childhood obesity epidemic.
PDP launched by Rite Aid, EnvisionRx Plus
Rite Aid Corp. is co-branding a value-focused Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP) with EnvisionRx Plus. The Rite Aid EnvisionRx Plus plan offers beneficiaries no deductible and zero co-pays on more than 500 generic medications — even during the coverage gap, or so-called donut hole.
CVS Caremark study eyes first-time fill rates
Of patients prescribed a new medication by their doctor, 24% did not fill the prescription, a study by CVS Caremark Corp., Harvard University, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers found.
IOM: Costs can’t be ignored in health reform
The federal government should consider cost in deciding which health benefits must be provided by insurance plans under President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) says.
NACDS: Proposed Medicaid FULs would hurt patients
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has told federal regulators that it feels proposed changes to Medicaid reimbursement rates will adversely affect patients.
Walgreens, Express Scripts continue to jockey for position
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.
Less access to diabetes testing supplies a danger
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.
Walgreens makes more stunning changes
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.
Healthier Rite Aid is boost for industry
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, Sython launch Xyzal oral solution generic
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, ECRS partner on pharmacy, grocery system interface
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.
MinuteClinic boosts meningitis vaccination capability in Texas
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.
New NCPA awards to honor adherence-focused pharmacists
The National Community Pharmacists Association has created two awards to recognize pharmacists who provide superior medication adherence services to patients.
P&G, Teva team up in health care
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 helps provide flu shots for uninsured at Dallas clinic
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.