SAN FRANCISCO -- Many supermarket pharmacy directors meeting here for the 7th annual Food Marketing Institute Supermarket Pharmacy Conference said they expect they will join the new pharmacy provider network formed by...
Check your mailbox. By now you should have received a solicitation to join Pharmacy Direct Network, recently formed by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and open to all community pharmacies.The new network...
SPOKANE, Wash. -- When Grant MacLean first became the pharmacy manager at a Rosauers supermarket in 1974 in Kalispell, Mont., the pharmacy wasn't doing that well. So instead of staying inside the pharmacy waiting for...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Pharmacy Direct Network, a new pharmacy benefit management company based here, is soliciting membership. Pharmacy Direct Network is open to all community pharmacies, including supermarket and...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Drug wholesalers need to get information out about products that switch from prescription to over-the-counter status as soon as possible, said Ray Modjeski, senior vice president of trade...
ABSECON, N.J. -- "Whose job is it to show the economic viability of pharmacy?" Is it pharmacy's alone? Or should the pharmaceutical industry play a part?These questions were raised by two speakers at the 15th annual...
Super Net, the pharmacy network formed by supermarket companies to bid for third-party contracts, has hired Prescription Claims Management, Dallas, to administer Super Net, process claims and market the network to...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Industry consolidation will continue, as will pressures on margins, Dr. Edward F.X. Hughes told drug wholesalers and manufacturers attending the National Wholesale Druggists Association...
SEATTLE -- Phase II of Merck-Medco's plan for its Coordinated Care Network was unveiled here at the 141st annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association to mixed reviews. The plan, which began this month...
The decision of General Motors to go with a closed pharmacy network for its 1 million employees and retirees is only the latest in a series of blows for prescription drug customers' freedom of pharmacy choice.Freedom...