Drug Channels

MARCH 1, 2022

Our exclusive analysis of these numbers finds that for 2022, an astounding 99% of seniors are enrolled in the wonderland of PDPs with preferred pharmacy networks. Below, we use the new enrollment data to examine the major pharmacy chains’ position within the 27 major Part D plans that have preferred networks. DOWN THE DATA RABBIT HOLE.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In yesterday’s post , I highlighted the largest pharmacy chains that will participate in the 2023 Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDP). What's more, plans from Aetna, Humana, WellCare, and UnitedHealthcare will not have any independent pharmacies participating via PSAOs as preferred pharmacies. to 1:30 p.m.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 12, 2023

In Drug Channels Institute’s list of the top 15 pharmacies of 2022 , we show that central-fill, mail pharmacies operated by large PBMs and health insurers have displaced retail chains as the largest prescription drug dispensers by revenues. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2023 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 15, 2022

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , available for purchase and immediate download. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , our 13th edition, provides a comprehensive, fact-based, and non-partisan tool for understanding the entire U.S. I am pleased to announce our new 2022 Economic Report on U.S.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 18, 2023

BSCA has kicked CVS Caremark, the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the country, to the curb and is electing to carve out various pharmacy functions with companies like Amazon instead.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 6, 2022

The retail pharmacy shakeout affected 2021 pharmacist employment. We found that retail pharmacies and drugstores employed fewer pharmacists, while hospitals and outpatient centers continued to add positions. Time for an update to the Drug Channels Institute (DCI) annual analysis of pharmacist salaries and employment.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 19, 2024

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , available for purchase and immediate download. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ (press release) Review pricing/license options and download the full 2024 report We’re offering special discounted pricing if you order before April 8, 2024. The 2024 Economic Report on U.S.

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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.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JULY 2, 2023

Credit: Aston University Professor Ian Wong has been appointed as Regius Professor of Pharmacy at Aston University A Regius Professorship is a rare award bestowed on a university by the monarch – a mark of exceptionally high standards of research and teaching Aston University’s Pharmacy School can trace its roots back to 1847. […]

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Under the new model, CVS’ pharmacy network will price drugs based on the amount the company paid for them, plus a defined markup and additional pharmacist fee.

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Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers is a definitive, nonpartisan resource that includes the most current information about pharmacy dispensing channels, third-party payers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), patients’ financial contributions, government regulations, and much more.

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Drug Channels

MAY 24, 2022

As the market for patient-paid prescriptions has expanded, disputes about the appropriate split of these spreads will pressure pharmacy-PBM relationships and drive change in the discount card business model. As I explain below, the unnamed chain appears to be Kroger— the sixth-largest U.S.

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Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Time to update Drug Channels' exclusive look at independent pharmacy owners’ business economics. Our analysis again reveals that despite what you may have heard, many independent pharmacies continue to hang on in a highly challenging retail environment. retail pharmacy industry faces many powerful headwinds.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 7, 2024

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. On March 19, 2024, Drug Channels Institute will release The 2024 Economic Report on U.S. This report—our fifteenth edition—remains the most comprehensive, fact-based tool for understanding the entire U.S. drug pricing, reimbursement, and dispensing system. prescription drug channels.

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Antidote

JULY 8, 2022

When you head to the pharmacy to pick up medicine, you likely aren’t thinking about all the steps it had to take to get into your hands — but did you know that on average, it takes about ten years for a new medication to make it to market ?

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Drug Channels

MARCH 8, 2023

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. The largest 15 pharmacies accounted for more than 75% of total dispensing revenues from retail, mail, long-term care, and specialty pharmacies. How will GoodRx and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company affect the pharmacy industry? to 1:30 p.m.

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Drug Channels

MAY 10, 2023

Yesterday’s reflections on Asembia’s Specialty Pharmacy Summit included a link to the general session slides. My portion of the deck included an updated mapping of vertical integration among insurers, PBMs, specialty pharmacies, and providers within U.S. drug channels. Many readers asked for a standalone version of this infamous chart.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Medicare Part D in 2024: The Seven Largest Companies' Preferred Pharmacy Networks and the Coming Collapse of the PDP Market , I documented how those networks now dominate stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDPs) and have become a major presence in Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans. to 1:30 p.m.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 21, 2022

National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo. The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) will host the NASP 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo September 19-22. September 19-22, 2022 | Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center | Orlando, FL. www.naspnet.org/annualmeeting.

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Drug Channels

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The other is my mapping of the insurer/PBM/specialty pharmacy/provider organizations that now dominate U.S. One is my chart showing the key channel flows within the entire U.S. pharmaceutical distribution, payment, and reimbursement system. drug channels.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 8, 2022

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. The total share of the largest 15 companies decreased slightly compared with their 2020 share, due primarily to below-market growth rates at retail and long-term care pharmacies. Read on as we cue up our latest update on the booming pharmacy and PBM marketplace.

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Drug Channels

MAY 7, 2024

It's time for Drug Channels ’ annual update of vertical integration among insurers, PBMs, specialty pharmacies, and providers within U.S. drug channels. Below you’ll find our latest illustration of the major vertical business relationships among the largest companies along with some of the notable activity since our previous update.

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Drugs.com

AUGUST 9, 2023

9, 2023 -- Following a four-day raid, Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies in Caribbean resorts of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum for irregular pill sales. WEDNESDAY, Aug. Last spring, the United States warned of dangerous pill sales to foreigners.

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Drug Channels

JULY 11, 2022

Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West. September 14-15, 2022 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina | San Diego, CA www.informaconnect.com/hub-specialty-pharmacy-west. Delivered as a Hybrid Event. Drug Channels readers will save 10% off the current registration rate when they use code 22DC10 *.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 12, 2024

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. How will the most consequential change in federal drug pricing policy affect the largest pharmacies and PBMs? Next week, Drug Channels Institute (DCI) will release our 2024 Economic Report on U.S. It’s the 15th edition of our popular and comprehensive examination of the entire U.S.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 19, 2024

Major pharmacy benefit managers continue to double down on specialty as a reliable source of business amid a growing crop of pharmacy upstarts.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The rise of discount card pricing within pharmacy benefit plans is a positive development. However, I suspect few people understand that placing discount cards within the pharmacy benefit enables a PBM to monetize a new fee stream from the card vendor. Links below.

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Drug Channels

MAY 23, 2023

Below, you’ll find Drug Channels Institute's latest estimates of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) market share based on equivalent prescription claims. In the meantime, tune in for more PBM-bashing at today's House hearing: The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in Prescription Drug Markets Part I: Self-Interest or Health Care?

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Drug Channels

MARCH 7, 2023

Fein, CEO of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for a new video webinar: Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook This event will be broadcast live on Friday, March 31, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers.

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Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This Valentine's Day, what could be more romantic than a deep dive into the relationships between manufacturers of specialty drugs and the pharmacies they choose for their limited and exclusive specialty pharmacy networks. As you’ll see, a typical network contains only five specialty pharmacies.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Our exclusive analysis of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) data reveals that preferred cost sharing pharmacy networks will maintain their dominance as an established component of Part D benefit design. In upcoming articles, I’ll examine how chain and independent pharmacies will participate in these plans.

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Drug Channels

MAY 17, 2022

Two weeks ago, Paula and I had the pleasure of attending Asembia’s 2022 Specialty Pharmacy Summit at the wonderful Wynn Las Vegas. Below, I violate Vegas code and tell you what happened there.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These include disruption to the now-booming biosimilar market, the prospects of physician/hospital vertical integration that will raise commercial healthcare costs and expand 340B, and the need for complex new processes to administer the IRA's lower pharmacy reimbursements.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 5, 2022

Consider Drug Channels Institute's latest estimates of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) market share, shown in the chart below. The highly-consolidated PBM market notched another year of increased concentration. For 2021, we estimate that the three biggest PBMs accounted for 80% of total equivalent prescription claims.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 9, 2024

Three is still the magic number for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). For 2023, nearly 80% of all equivalent prescription claims were processed by three companies: the Caremark business of CVS Health, the Express Scripts business of Cigna, and the Optum Rx business of UnitedHealth Group.

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Drug Channels

JULY 27, 2022

In Drug Channels Institute’s list of the top 15 pharmacies of 2021 , we show that central-fill, mail pharmacies operated by large PBMs and health insurers have displaced retail chains as the largest prescription drug dispensers by revenues. This week, I’m attending Asembia’s Specialty Pharmacy Summit.

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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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