CVS Caremark: It’s all about the company
No more confusing or misunderstood retail or health care alliance exists today than the relationship among the CVS drug chain, the Caremark PBM and the MinuteClinic immediate-care network.
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The overarching concern for retail pharmacy
As the new year begins, retail pharmacy operators are confronted with a host of pressing issues that will affect the measure of success they can achieve as health care providers and business enterprises.
PhRMA: What’s ahead for biopharmaceuticals in 2013?
It’s human nature to look ahead to the New Year. What will 2013 hold for America’s biopharmaceutical research sector? Well, quite a bit. John Castellani We will join other stakeholders in the dialogue over the role of health care costs in our nation’s economic challenges.
The most innovative retailer in America
If you’re within a thousand miles of Chicago, make the journey to the Windy City and drop in on the new, 30,000-square-foot (25,000-square-foot selling) Walgreens drug store in the city’s Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhood.
Walgreens, Alliance Boots reach out to suppliers
Walgreens has received a lot of well-deserved attention related to the opening of its latest flagship stores, in Hollywood, Calif.
Drug stores a line of defense against chaos
though reaching those destinations would have provided no respite. Bad as Manhattan was faring, the neighboring principalities were worse. Stories abounded about
Pharmacy needs to stay engaged in political process
With the conclusion of the 2012 election cycle, retail pharmacy operators have received a definitive answer to one of the biggest questions facing the industry.
Drug chains should cater to care-at-home needs
from clinical to retail settings. So, who is, or will be, shopping your home health care department? Have you been reacting to your customers’ needs or anticipating them? The number of seniors in the United States is rising
Soul of industry resides in pharmacists
Thrifty White Pharmacy, an 89-store Minnesota-based drug chain with stores in six prairie states, is rewriting the book on the way community pharmacy is, or could be, practiced in America.
New approaches to health care long overdue
The walls that have demarcated areas of responsibility within the U.S. health care system are beginning to crumble, as payers, providers and patients seek better ways to ensure quality care and, at the same time, limit expenditures that are the highest in the world, consuming almost 18% of GDP.
Integrity of drug supply chain must be protected
whether brand name or generic — have been able to count on the fact that the drug in the bottle matches what’s
Visitors gain better grasp of Alliance Boots
A small group of American suppliers journeyed to England earlier this month to learn about Alliance Boots, meet with that company’s senior managers, and attempt to gain a clearer understanding of some of the ways the Alliance Boots merger with Walgreens will influence the future of mass retailing in
For drug chains, competition intensifies
The competitive challenges that confront the nation’s drug store operators are becoming more intense.
Drug stores can benefit by meeting needs of active seniors
The U.S. population over age 65 is soaring as the number of births did during the baby boom, and home health care products are not the only growing segment of drug store merchandise for today’s senior citizens.
CVS, Walgreens battle over Rx customers
In the aftermath of the agreement between Walgreens and Express Scripts wherein the nation’s largest drug chain will once again honor prescriptions from Express Scripts members, a competitive battle has emerged between Walgreens and CVS, its No. 1 rival.