Randy Edeker on the future of retail pharmacy
Industry icon sees difficult days ahead for community pharmacy.
Jeffrey Woldt
Video Forum: Kathleen McLaughlin, Walmart
Kathleen McLaughlin, executive vice president and chief sustainability officer at Walmart, tells this week’s Video Forum about the retailer’s commitment to being a regenerative company.
Video Forum: Lynne Fruth, Fruth Pharmacy
Lynne Fruth, CEO of Fruth Pharmacy, continues recounting what it took to convince elected officials in West Virginia to make meaningful changes in rules governing PBM practices under the state’s public employees benefits plan.
Video Forum: Lynne Fruth, Fruth Pharmacy
In the first installment of a two-part interview, Lynne Fruth, CEO of Fruth Pharmacy, tells this week’s Video Forum about the company’s role in securing passage of legislation to rein in PBM practices under West Virginia’s public employees insurance plan.
Video Forum: Kevin Host, Walmart
Kevin Host, senior vice president of pharmacy at Walmart and incoming NACDS chairman, talks about the state of the association and the industry it represents.
Video Forum: Mark Baum, FMI – The Food Industry Association
Mark Baum, senior vice president of industry relations and chief collaboration officer at FMI – The Food Industry Association, tells this week’s Video Forum about the ongoing drive to elevate the presence of supermarket operators and their suppliers in the household products, general merchandise,
Video Forum: Brian Nightengale, Inmar Intelligence
In this week’s Video Forum, Brian Nightengale, the new president of health care solutions at Inmar Intelligence, discusses how data-driven tools and insights can make community pharmacy and other aspects of health care more productive operationally, while at the same time enhancing patient care.
Video Forum: Mike Wysong, CARE Pharmacies
about both the association and the industry. Wysong shares his views about the current state of the retail pharmacy business, as well as such important issues as PBM reform, expanding the scope of
Video Forum: Crystal Lennartz, Health Mart
In this week’s Video Forum, Crystal Lennartz, recently named president of Health Mart and Health Mart Atlas, talks about her priorities for the network of independent drug stores.
Video Forum: Rodney McMullen, Kroger
This week’s Video Forum features Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen, newly named Retailer of the Year at MMR (Chain Drug Review‘s sister publication). McMullen discusses some of the major initiatives that have helped make the company the nation’s premier operator of traditional supermarkets.
Video Forum: Health Equity Summit, Part 2
In this week’s Video Forum, Kearney’s Laura Bowen and Karen Yocky talk about what the consulting firm has learned from its work in helping clients step up the fight against health disparities. They spoke during the second annual Health Equity Summit sponsored by Kearney and Chain Drug Review.
Video Forum: Sarah Davidson, ECRM
after the pandemic necessitated a shift to virtual sessions — plans
NACDS 90th Anniversary Celebration
The industry will soon come together to recognize the National Association of Chain Drug Stores for its myriad contributions to retailing and health care over the past nine decades.
Video Forum: Health Equity Summit, Part 1
Chain Drug Review and Kearney recently assembled a group of leading pharmacy operators and other retailers, physicians, payers, public officials, and policy experts for the second-annual Health Equity Summit in Chicago.
Video Forum: Vin Gupta, Amazon Pharmacy
In this week’s Video Forum, Dr. Vin Gupta, Amazon Pharmacy’s chief medical officer, talks about the potential for e-commerce providers to help bring down the cost of prescription medications.
The fight over DIR reform goes on
The community pharmacy profession was blindsided by the Trump administration last month when the Department of Health and Human Services issued the final rule that will govern the Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage programs in 2020.