Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In this issue: An update on the retail pharmacy shakeout Arguing for high drug prices A leading researcher provides a 340B reality check Physicians don’t want pharmacists getting uppity Plus, Dave Grohl fights for your right to…have healthcare price transparency? Sorry, no Threads.) All rights reserved.

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Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Community Pharmacies and Harm Reduction "Community pharmacies are essential healthcare destinations that serve as an optimal resource for addressing non-urgent inquiries, such as safe injecting practices, management of adverse drug reactions, and medication provision, thus reducing the burden on general practitioners (GPs) [ 1 , 2 ].

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Drug Channels

APRIL 1, 2024

Despite skyrocketing sales for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs, many retail pharmacies are losing money on every prescription. The common factor behind these two disparate situations: Pharmaceutical wholesalers’ unusual pricing for brand-name drugs sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and other buyers. All rights reserved.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 16, 2024

Drug Channels Institute’s (DCI’s) latest analysis finds that participants in the specialty pharmacy market continue to get more diverse—although revenues remain highly concentrated. Read on for DCI’s latest overview of the 2023 marketplace and revenues of the biggest market participants, along with key specialty pharmacy trends.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 12, 2024

Next week, Drug Channels Institute (DCI) will release our 2024 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. We’re offering special discounted pricing if you order before April 7, 2024. How will the most consequential change in federal drug pricing policy affect the largest pharmacies and PBMs?

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Drug Channels

MARCH 25, 2024

Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company. Find out during Drug Channel Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act , a new live video webinar with Adam J. Click here to learn more and reserve your spot at our April 5 webinar. All rights reserved.

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Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Community Pharmacies and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Consumers "With the growing availability of AAS [Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids] through online platforms [ 71 , 72 ] the traditional reliance on social networks and healthcare providers for access to injecting equipment and safer use information has diminished [ 73 – 76 ]. Harm Reduct J.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 18, 2024

billion figure was roughly accurate for the AllianceRx Walgreens Pharmacy business. However, Walgreens disclosed that it also generates about $16 billion in specialty revenues from its retail pharmacies and nearly 300 community-based specialty pharmacy locations. Click here to see the original post from April 2024.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 24, 2024

See The Top 15 Specialty Pharmacies of 2023: Market Shares and Revenues at the Biggest PBMs, Health Plans, and Independents. In DCI’s exclusive analysis below, we show that specialty pharmacies affiliated with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play an outsized role in manufacturer-designated dispensing networks.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 2, 2024

For more on acquisition cost reimbursement for pharmacies, see Sections 8.4. of our new 2024 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. Is the world ready for new ways to price pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) services? and 12.3.4. Et tu, Walgreens?)

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Drug Channels

APRIL 29, 2024

on how Medicare Part D plans will react to the Inflation Reduction Act Walgreens' unexpected specialty pharmacy strength A video deconstruction of my infamous Drug Channels article on GoodRx Plus, a cartoonist illustrates my recent keynote on the battle for oncology margin.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 4, 2024

For updated data on hospital-owned specialty pharmacies, see Chapter 3 of DCI's new 2024 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. As many of you know, hospitals and health systems have emerged as significant participants in the specialty pharmacy industry.

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Drug Channels

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Open enrollment is under way for the 2024 Medicare Part D plans. Our exclusive analysis of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) data reveals that preferred cost sharing pharmacy networks will maintain their dominance as a component of Part D benefit design.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 30, 2024

Initially, drug manufacturers were required to offer these discounts only to the in-house pharmacies of covered entities. In 2010, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) authorized covered entities to contract with an unlimited number of retail pharmacies to fill prescriptions for their patients.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 9, 2024

Three is still the magic number for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company. All rights reserved. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 18, 2024

Today’s guest post comes from Jim Sheninger, Pharmacy Strategy Officer at GoodRx. Jim describes GoodRx's emerging pharmacy contracting strategies. In addition to working through pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), GoodRx now also contracts directly with Walgreens, CVS, and other national and regional pharmacies.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Despite skyrocketing sales for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs, many retail pharmacies are losing money on every prescription. The common factor behind these two disparate situations: Pharmaceutical wholesalers’ unusual pricing for brand-name drugs sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and other buyers. to 1:30 p.m.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fein, CEO of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for DCI’s new live video webinar: Drug Channels Outlook 2024 This event will be broadcast live on Friday, December 15, 2023 12:00 p.m. Please note that our December 2023 webinar is *not* included with next year’s 2024 Video Webinar Series.)

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 24, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — As drug manufacturers battle the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) in federal courts over the role of 340B contract pharmacies, an Eighth Circuit decision to uphold a 2021 Arkansas law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. 22-3675, 2024 U.S. 2024) at 13 (“Decision”).

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Drug Channels

JUNE 17, 2024

Click here to see the original post from April 2024. Three is still the magic number for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company. All rights reserved. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Is the world ready for new ways to price pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) services? I commend CVS Health for attempting to address key economic challenges facing the retail pharmacy industry and for tackling the hidden complexities of PBM pricing models. Below you'll find details and links to source documents.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 30, 2024

But who needs the Super Bowl when you can tackle this month’s selection of notable news stories, intercepted for you from the Drug Channels gridiron: Punt : Average list prices are unchanged for 2024 Trick Play : GSK tussles with PBMs over lower-priced products Rush! Check out the wonderful comments on this LinkedIn post. Great things ahead.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 9, 2024

For 2024, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again each excluded 600 or more drugs from their standard formularies. Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this issue: A reality check on Express Scripts’ purported “cost-based” pharmacy network Mark Cuban explains how and why the PBM market will change Why two drug prices are better than one Pharmacists sing the retail pharmacy shakeout blues Plus, two Philly legends meet at a cardiology conference! I’m not posting to Threads yet.)

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Drugs.com

JUNE 18, 2024

TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 -- Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for the overdose-reversing drug naloxone when they have to shell out more at the pharmacy, a new study finds.Naloxone (also known by the brand name Narcan) is a critical.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 3, 2024

The 2024 formularies described below should boost biosimilar adoption. Click here to see the original post from January 2024. There are also unusual formulary developments for insulin products, many of which experienced massive list price cuts for 2024. Read on for my deep dive into these two therapeutic categories.

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Drugs.com

MAY 13, 2024

MONDAY, May 13, 2024 -- Women who get abortion pills through the mail receive care that's as good as those who are required to get them in person from a clinic or doctor’s office, a new study says. Using a mail-order pharmacy to deliver the.

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Drugs.com

APRIL 15, 2024

MONDAY, April 15, 2024 -- Americans are facing more shortages of the drugs they need for medical care than ever before, a national pharmacy database shows.The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHSP) and the University of Utah Drug.

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Drugs.com

MARCH 6, 2024

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- Barry Cadden, co-founder of a specialty compounding pharmacy behind a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, has been handed a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years in Michigan for involuntary manslaughter.On Tuesday, Cadden.

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Perficient: Drug Development

MARCH 19, 2024

Our experts are closely monitoring nine healthcare trends that are shaping industry leaders’ strategies in 2024. See Also: Disruptive Strategies in the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Industry: Evolving Business Models Healthcare Trend #9: Mandate-Driven Transformation HCOs have vast experience navigating legal and regulatory mandates.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 5, 2024

Fein, president of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for DCI’s latest live video webinar: Drug Channel Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act This event will be broadcast live on Friday, April 5, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. This event is part of The Drug Channels 2024 Video Webinar Series.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

2, 2024 -- For nearly a week, prescription drug orders have been disrupted at thousands of pharmacies as the largest health insurer in the United States tries to fully restore services following a cyberattack. TUESDAY, Feb. The security breach was.

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Drug Channels

MAY 21, 2024

Fein, president of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for DCI’s new live video webinar: The 340B Drug Pricing Program: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook This event will be broadcast live on Friday, June 21, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 16, 2024

My recent Drug Channels Outlook 2024 webinar covered 12 key trends that will shape the commercial environment this year. As I explain, this growth will challenge payer and channel economics, while boosting profits for patient reimbursement hub businesses and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). My first webinar will be on April 5, 2024.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 8, 2024

We intend to bring together people from the entire drug channel: pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), health plans, insurers, and plan sponsors, wholesalers and distributors, pharmacies, providers, buying groups, government officials, and more. We will also have a very limited number of sponsors.

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Fierce BioTech

MARCH 29, 2024

Is your pharmacy ready to make the leap? Learn how your pharmacy can prepare today for a future of pharmacy focused on patient outcomes. On Demand Start Date Wed, 05/15/2024 - 15:00 Related Categories Pharma Manufacturing

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for today’s Drug Channels Outlook 2024 live video webinar. My topic #9 for 2024: The Battle Over 340B Gets Even Messier. Click here to see the original post from September 2023. Drug Channels has just obtained new details on the size of the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

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