Hidden Profits In the Prescription Drug Supply Chain

Wall Street Journal-14 hours ago

Depending on how you look at them, pharmacy-benefit managers are either low-margin middlemen that fight to reduce drug costs, or highly profitable intermediaries that take a cut of every prescription and earn more when drug prices rise. Pharmacy-benefit managers are hired by businesses such as insurers that pay f

Louisiana veterinarian, pharmacy sentenced in horse doping
Seattle Times-13 hours ago

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Why Your Pharmacist Can't Tell You That $20 Prescription Could ...

New York Times-12 hours ago

Steven F. Moore, whose family owns Condo Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, N.Y., said the restrictions on pharmacists' ability to discuss prices with patients were “incredibly frustrating.” Mr. Moore offered this example of how the pricing works: A consumer filling a prescription for a drug to treat diabetes or high blood pressure may ...

7 Things to Consider Before Transitioning to a New Pharmacy Job
Pharmacy Times-13 hours ago

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US charges pharmacy with defrauding military health care program

Fairfield Daily Republic-6 hours ago

The Justice Department has accused a Florida pharmacy and the Los Angeles private equity firm that owns it of bilking a military health care program out of millions of dollars by pushing unneeded vitamins and creams. In a filing in federal court in Miami, federal prosecutors said compounding pharmacy Patient Care ...