Over a dozen members of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores board are meeting with congressional lawmakers to highlight pharmacy’s key role in controlling health care costs and improving service quality and access.
As a deadline for planned Medicaid cuts nears, a coalition of pharmacy industry groups is urging congressional leaders to delay the reductions and modify the formula for reimbursing pharmacies that dispense generic drugs to Medicaid recipients.
Many patients go without their prescribed medications because of slow or ineffective service by mail-order pharmacies, according to a poll by the National Community Pharmacists Association.
With consumers on high alert heading into flu season, a number of supermarket chains are offering grocery and other product discounts in tandem with flu shot programs through their pharmacies.
Rite Aid Corp. has promoted 17-year pharmacy industry veteran Ernie Richardsen to group vice president of pharmaceutical purchasing and clinical services.
Health Mart ranked first among chain drug retailers in terms of customer satisfaction in a J.D. Power and Associates pharmacy study.
Walgreen Co. said it’s encountering unprecedented demand for seasonal flu shots, delivering more than 1 million vaccinations since it began offering them two weeks ago.
Later this month Kinney Drugs plans to begin holding clinics for seasonal flu and pneumonia shots in all of its retail pharmacy outlets. The drug store chain, with 90 locations in upstate New York and Vermont, said this week that it will start offering the vaccinations on September 28. The flu and
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is rolling out free mail delivery nationwide for 90-day supplies of certain generic prescription drugs.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores declared a victory for pharmacies after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the Texas State Plan Amendment (SPA) to raise the pharmacy dispensing fee.
CVS Caremark Corp. has made several organizational changes in its retail division. Mike Bloom, senior vice president of merchandising since 2003, has been named senior vice president of merchandising and supply chain.
Ahold USA food and drug chains Stop & Stop and Giant Food have begun offering discounted flu shots to loyalty card holders.
A key Senate committee has made Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement a priority as it drafts health care legislation, but the chain drug industry must keep a close watch as lawmakers work out the details for reckoning drug prices, according to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
This week Kmart has started offering seasonal flu vaccinations on a walk-in basis through clinics at more than 900 pharmacy locations nationwide. The discount store chain, part of Sears Holdings Corp.
Walgreen Co. has hired new chief information and chief technology officers and a marketing services vice president. The drug store chain on Thursday said Tim Theriault will join the company as CIO and senior vice president effective October 1.
In the wake of last week’s ruling in the First DataBank/Medi-Span case, pharmacy industry groups are turning to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius to help head off Medicaid cutbacks that they say threaten patient access to pharmacies.
