Pharmacy Checkers

JULY 11, 2019

I’m proud to share that PharmacyChecker has published a white paper that examines prices and availability of newly approved generic drugs. Our report, based on 40 generic medications that were approved from 2017-2018, clearly shows that generic drug approvals often don’t lead to greater affordability or even access here in the U.S.

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STAT News

AUGUST 3, 2022

In the latest bid to address high prescription drug costs, a nonprofit plans to sell a cheaper generic version of an expensive cancer medicine in the U.S.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 27, 2023

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for this Friday’s live video webinar: Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook. The rise of discount card pricing within pharmacy benefit plans is a positive development. Links below.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , available for purchase and immediate download. Click here to download a free report overview (including key industry trends, the Table of Contents, and a List of Exhibits) New Drug Channels Institute Study Examines Consolidation and Vertical Integration of U.S.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 27, 2022

A drug’s out-of-pocket cost is primarily the result of decisions made by insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Pharmacy benefit managers are seeking to maximize their profits and the profits of their insurer clients. Insurers and PBMs have even devised schemes to overcharge patients for generic drugs.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2022

Once limited to a few new treatments, it’s now being applied widely, even to generic drugs and established regimens.?The Additionally, the act would cap out-of-pocket drug spending under Medicare at $2,000. Part D plans differ in premiums, deductibles, co-pays, formularies, tiers, and preferred pharmacies. The result:?

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BioSpace

JUNE 20, 2022

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company now boasts over 700 prescription generic drugs for a variety of conditions, ranging from acid reflux to dementia to autoimmune diseases like Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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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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Pharmacy Checkers

AUGUST 20, 2020

More than ever, if an American compares drug prices on PharmacyChecker.com, they will learn that most generic drugs are far cheaper domestically than in Canada – or, in some cases, even India. afford medication at their local pharmacy. . Many of you know that prices on the same brand name drugs sold outside the U.S.

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Pharmacy Checkers

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Forgetting about the potential dangers to competition from corporate Leviathan Amazon, that it launched a new online pharmacy this week will certainly appeal to tens of millions of Americans. Prescription drugs are yet another thing you can get when you go to Amazon.com. See: The Walgreens UK Pharmacy Connection and Importation.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 25, 2022

The only way forward for generics producers. Margins in the generics market are overall being driven down, Harvard Medical School Health Economics professor Richard Frank, PhD, tells Pharmaceutical Technology. More specifically, Frank says drug-device combinations share some of these characteristics.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ICYMI, CVS Health recently announced that it will close about 900 of its retail pharmacies. The pharmacy shakeout is accelerating, as smaller competitors exit and larger companies reduce store count. The pharmacy shakeout is accelerating, as smaller competitors exit and larger companies reduce store count.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Charlotte Morabito at CNBC has put together “Why Pharmacies Overcharge,” an entertaining and provocative video on the pharmacy industry and its generic prescription pricing. I especially enjoyed the cool visualizations of Drug Channels Institute’s industry data. It’s definitely worth your time. Links below.

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 31, 2021

Charlotte Morabito at CNBC has put together “Why Pharmacies Overcharge,” an entertaining and provocative video on the pharmacy industry and its generic prescription pricing. I especially enjoyed the cool visualizations of Drug Channels Institute’s industry data. It’s definitely worth your time. Links below.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 25, 2022

Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, just got involved in the online pharmacy business, promising to “shield consumers from inflated drug prices.” Ulcerative colitis therapy mesalamine can be had from the online pharmacy for $32.40 All drugs are priced at cost plus 15% !

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 15, 2022

CivicaRx is a non-profit generic drug company producing affordable insulin biosimilars in collaboration with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). A PhRMA spokesperson told Pharmaceutical Technology that health insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) pay less today for insulin than they did 15 years ago.

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XTalks

JANUARY 31, 2023

As Amazon continues to ramp up its healthcare portfolio, the online behemoth rolled out RxPass last week, a flat fee drug program through which customers can buy an unlimited amount of commonly prescribed generic medications for $5 a month. The list of available medicines includes about 50 generic drugs.

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Pharmacy Checkers

JUNE 21, 2019

With drug prices in the spotlight of our national healthcare debate, one could certainly view Amazon’s entry last year into the pharmacy space as a welcome development. to bring lower-cost generic drugs to market faster are a great step in. prescription drugs. They do so by using online pharmacies that sell.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Biosimilars with this designation are beneficial to payers as they eliminate the need for another prescription, she explains An interchangeable biosimilar can be automatically substituted for Humira at a pharmacy, Bhat adds. Pfizer expects to have a decision by the end of this year if its biosimilar Abrilada will also have this status.

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Druggist

MARCH 25, 2021

Can I ask the pharmacy to dispense Cerazette instead of Cerelle? Do generic, and branded drugs produce exactly the same effect? . As with other drugs, once a patent expires, other manufactures start to produce generic or new brands of the same pill (desogestrel). I used to be prescribed Cerazette, but not anymore.

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Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this issue: Payers confess: Patients lose from copay accumulators Humana joins the Express Scripts GPO Hospitals vs. PBMs over specialty pharmacy white bagging Let’s all follow the Buy-and-Bill Dollar! Plus, entrepreneurial pharmacy owner Dave Marley demonstrates the power of innovation. Marley Drug generated $1.7

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 6, 2022

American entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban tells us why he and his partners launched the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC), a public-benefit corporation and online pharmacy that provides patients access to medications at a lower cost. . “Manufacturers get a bad rap as being the source of high pricing for patient meds.

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Druggist

OCTOBER 13, 2020

How to get Truvada Superdrug Pharmacy: Truvada for PeEP service Cost of Truvada in the UK Can you get Truvada on NHS? One important message to take away is that Truvada and equivalent generic drugs are not 100% effective. There are several generic versions of Truvada. Today, I am reviewing Truvada for PrEP.

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Pharmacy Checkers

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For those of you looking for a methodologically strong analysis of international drug prices and a history of related studies, this is the report for you. In looking at all drugs, brand and generic, the percentage goes down to 256%. That’s because, as the report shows, generic drugs in the U.S. Here’s a retort.

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Pharmacy Checkers

JANUARY 16, 2020

The company Blink Health is advertising Canadian drugs on Google, even though it does not sell medication from Canadian pharmacies. This distinguishes them other drug price comparison leaders that offer pharmacy discount cards and coupons for U.S. pharmacies – ours is called the PharmacyChecker Discount Card.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 20, 2020

Teva mainly administered the scheme through its specialty pharmacy, Advanced Care Scripts (ACS) with payments amounting to around $300 million during the period, according to the complaint. During that period Teva raised the price from around $17,000 per year to over $73,000 per year, the DoJ alleges.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 29, 2021

The substitution may occur at the pharmacy, a practice commonly called “pharmacy-level substitution” – much like how generic drugs are substituted for brand name drugs, subject to state pharmacy laws, which vary by state.

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Pharmacy Checkers

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just one agency out of the many that make up the United States Department of Health and Human Services and, from PharmacyChecker’s relatively small (non-regulatory) role of helping verify online pharmacies to protect public health, I’ve learned just how insanely massive its mandate is.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, our crazy pharmacy pricing system deters pharmacies from pursuing consumer-driven pricing and PBMs from undercutting their own clients. Consequently, discount cards could become the force that upends PBMs’ pharmacy benefit economics, plan sponsors’ decisions, and the entire generic market.

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 17, 2021

Meanwhile, our crazy pharmacy pricing system deters pharmacies from pursuing consumer-driven pricing and PBMs from undercutting their own clients. Consequently, discount cards could become the force that upends PBMs’ pharmacy benefit economics, plan sponsors’ decisions, and the entire generic market.

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Druggist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Buscopan and mebeverine are two common drugs used for symptomatic treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Both drugs can be prescribed by a doctor or purchased over the counter from pharmacies and in case of Bucopa IBS relief from supermarkets. Buscopan vs Mebeverine lists similarities and differences between both drugs.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

LD 686 also revises the process for disclosures by manufacturers, wholesale drug distributors and pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs). Previously, manufacturers, wholesale drug distributors and PBMs were required to provide “pricing component data” within 60 days of a request from the state.

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Pharmacy Checkers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

online pharmacy that actually tests the quality of medication it sends to patients and apparently, to my delight, they support drug importation as a policy to lower costs. When people go online or to their local Walgreens to buy prescription drugs domestically, they are largely relying on the regulatory strength of the U.S.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 6, 2023

Novartis has also been on the receiving end of litigation with the Greek health ministry, academic institutes, and more, engaging the drug company in other legal disputes. Novartis $245 million settlement. Gilenya legal drama.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 10, 2023

Could India become an important centre of drug discovery innovation? India is traditionally known as ‘the pharmacy of the world’ due to its huge pharmaceuticals manufacturing capacity and high quantity of exports, particularly generic medicines and vaccines.

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Pharmacy Checkers

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not just cancer drugs that are unobtainable or priced too high in China, but drugs to treat chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. It will be interesting to see how this change in law impacts the international online pharmacy market. Buying Drugs Online from Retail Platforms is Legal.

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