The Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA) announces new appointments to its Government Affairs and Communications teams: Kirsten Wing Named Director of Federal Government Affairs Kirsten Wing joined the association in early March as Director of Federal Government Affairs. In this position, Ms.
After three years of the pandemic, consumers are returning to health care. But they are not returning to the same health care landscape, nor are they behaving in the same manner.
ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is lauding legislation by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) that will crack down on tactics by which “pharmaceutical benefit manipulator” middlemen maximize profits at the expense of patients, pharmacies, and others.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association is cheering bipartisan legislation reintroduced today to improve transparency and prevent the use of spread pricing in Medicaid managed care programs.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – Aetna Better Health of Illinois, a CVS Health company, was awarded Health Equity Accreditation from The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
In a new web video, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) president and CEO JC Scott discusses the critical role and value of pharmacy benefit companies, the root cause of high prescription drug prices, and how solutions to boost competition, especially in the biosimilar marketplace, wil
Dollar General Corp. reported strong sales for the fourth quarter and fiscal year (53 weeks) ended February 3, although store traffic was down and sales came in below expectations. Fourth quarter net sales increased 17.9%, and fiscal year net sales increased 10.6%.
Last week, The Hill hosted an event titled, “Prescription for Change: Improving Competition to Lower Drug Prices.
Andre Persaud, chief retail officer at Rite Aid, has left the company. Bill Miller, senior vice president of central retail operations, will serve as acting head of retail operations. Chief pharmacy officer Karen Staniforth will oversee store pharmacy operations.
According to published reports, almost 20 Democratic senators are calling on Walgreens to provide more details about its recently announced plans to restrict access to abortion pills in certain states and pressing other major chains to make it clear where they stand on the issue.
“Implementation and Evaluation of a Collaborative, Pharmacy-Based Hepatitis C and HIV
The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP), the only non-profit organization in the U.S.
ARLINGTON, Va. – More than 2 million care providers exchanged patient clinical and benefit information more than 21.7 billion times in 2022, reaching virtually every American patient, according to the Surescripts 2022 National Progress Report.
Tension Packaging & Automation, a leader in packaging automation solutions for both eCommerce and pharmacy automation fulfillment operations, announced plans to introduce new packaging, automation and sortation solutions in their booth #S4359 at ProMat 2023.
Novo Nordisk announced it is lowering the U.S. list prices of several insulin products by up to 75% for people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
