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Kentucky’s independent pharmacies, facing ongoing financial pressure, had hoped for relief from a new law meant to give them ...
For far too long, these companies have used our nation’s drug supply chain to benefit shareholders and executives while ...
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Pritzker signs health care legislation
The Prescription Drug Affordability Act will impose new restrictions on practices of pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, a ...
Aiming to curb opioid misuse, Fred Meyer pharmacies will now provide free locking bags to any pharmacy customer with an opioid prescription. The move is part of a statewide initiative of the ...
“This legislation imposes a new tax on patients and health plan sponsors and will increase health care costs for everyone,” ...
Governor JB Pritzker joined Attorney General Kwame Raoul, healthcare advocates, independent pharmacists, and legislators to sign ...
While the vast majority of new laws passed each year take effect on July 1, some measures go into effect much later.
Rite Aid was once on top as the nation’s largest drugstore chain with quick growth in the mid-’90s in. Another growth spurt took place a decade later, before the latest bankruptcy led to its ...
Inovia Pharmacy As major chains like Rite Aid prepare to shut down stores across California, many patients are left scrambling to transfer prescriptions. On Studio 17, Yasser from ...
A bill that aims to support pharmacy access in underserved areas by targeting PBMs — the middlemen between insurers, drugmakers and pharmacies — is headed to Gov. Pritzker's desk.
Below is a roundup of payer-centric news headlines you may have missed during the month of June 2025. | In June, Gold Coast Health Plan said a Trump administration policy to share sensitive Medicaid ...