AmerisourceBergen Corp. plans a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star measure improvement initiative for members of its Good Neighbor Pharmacy network. The pharmaceutical distributor said Wednesday that effort includes an agreement with Pharmacy Quality Solutions Inc.
As consumers and businesses seek health care benefits and services to meet their specific needs, CVS Caremark Corp. has the “ability and agility” to provide what they’re looking for, president and chief executive officer Larry Merlo said at the company’s annual analyst day.
Regional food and drug retailer A&P has signed a three-year agreement in which Innovatix LLC will be its exclusive provider of specialty pharmacy services.
Almost 1,200 seniors have complained to Medicare this year about problems with mail order pharmacies, including shipment of unneeded medication and having to go without medication because delayed shipments, according to documentation recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Walgreen Co. is collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to pilot a model of HIV patient-centered care in a national project to advance clinical integration and medication therapy management.
Duane Reade has kicked off a holiday photo contest on Facebook to boost awareness of its store-brand hosiery products. The metropolitan New York drug chain said Monday that its "Show Us Your Party Legs" contest, which runs until Jan.
The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust has committed $5 million to help expand access to quality health care nationwide via partnerships with the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC), the School-Based Health Alliance and the second year of the "Innovations in Community Health" grant p
Pharmacists continue to be well-regarded by Americans in terms of honesty and ethics, according to an annual poll by Gallup. In Gallup’s yearly Honesty & Ethics survey, released Monday, 70% of the 1,031 U.S. adults polled rated pharmacists as "very high" or "high" in honesty and ethical standards.
It’s evident that John Standley is confident in Rite Aid’s strategic game plan, which has reinvigorated the company financially and in the marketplace.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores voiced concern to lawmakers about preferred pharmacy networks as consumers sign up for benefits offered via the new health insurance exchanges.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy has implemented a compliance packaging program that organizes a patient’s prescription drugs into individual packets with labels and full instructions. The EZ Meds packaging organizes a patient’s prescriptions into individual packets with labels and full instructions.
Sav-Mor/Sav-On Pharmacies, a Michigan retail pharmacy network, plans to deploy PharmaSmart International Inc.’s biometric screening kiosk and health IT solution throughout its stores.
Price Chopper Supermarkets has partnered with health insurer CDPHP to roll out health screening kiosks, dubbed Health Stations, at some of its in-store pharmacies in upstate New York.
A report from Shoppers Drug Mart points out that many more Canadians could be vaccinated for flu if pharmacists in all provinces were permitted to immunize.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has called on the Senate Finance Committee to support a proposal that would expand coverage of medication therapy management (MTM) programs in Medicare Part D. NCPA said Wednesday that Sens. Pat Roberts (R., Kan.) and Robert Casey (D., Pa.
More than 11 million Americans had vacation plans disrupted by the flu during the 2012-13 flu season, underscoring the importance of getting vaccinated, according to a survey by Walgreen Co.
