Chain Pharmacy

Rite Aid’s KidsCents will offer free flu shots to children.

New Walgreens website will showcase the chain’s research on adherence and other topics.

Savings from generic and biosimilar drugs are making PBMs and pharmacies, as well as patients, happy.

Class action lawsuits claim that chains colluded with PBMs to overbill customers.

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The chain signs a deal with Fareva to take over its contract manufacturing business.

The chain is accused of not reporting opioid thefts by its employees.

Big-box merchandisers, including supermarkets, employ thousands of pharmacists and offer higher-than-average salaries.

A collaboration between the pharmacy and LabCorp will provide specimen collection services.

California judge blocks 11 classes in suit that claims CVS charged insurers and insured patients more than uninsured patients.

Rite Aid and Albertsons expand naloxone Access, hoping to curb the opioid epidemic.

Two organizations opposed to tobacco sales at pharmacy chains are turning their attention to Walgreens’ annual shareholder meeting on January 26.

Walgreens, CVS Health and other drug chains promised to improve procedures after a Chicago Tribune investigation found that pharmacists at several retail chains filled prescriptions with dangerous drug combinations.

Last month, OptumRx and CVS Pharmacy announced that they are partnering to provide more convenient choices and lower costs for patients.

Omnicare agreed to settle claims that it conspired with Abbott Laboratories “to engage in a number of disguised kickback arrangements to increase overall use of Depakote,”

Somewhere in the United States, there may be a retail or specialty pharmacy that is not part of a group purchasing organization (GPO). If there is such a pharmacy, it is very hard to find.

The retail chain has linked itself with EnvisionRx.

The profitability of both chain and independent pharmacies is being affected by direct and indirect remuneration fees that insurers are retroactively charging pharmacies after filling Medicare Part D prescriptions.

Some customers are upset over CVS Pharmacy’s switch to different pill bottles than the ones Target has used for more than a decade.

Santa Cruz, Calif. has become the first U.S. city to require retail pharmacies and drug manufacturers collect and dispose of unwanted prescription drugs.

Select Walgreens, Rite Aid, and other chain drugstores were among those cited by the FDA for selling e-cigarettes, e-liquid, and cigars to minors.

The agreement between CVS and Massachusetts requiring the PMP check prior to dispensing opioids is believed to be the first in the nation.

These pharmacists forged their own paths.

When Express Scripts and CVS Health announced their 2017 formularies on August 1, a common theme emerged among the healthcare giants: several blockbuster drugs will be removed from both companies’ formularies and lower-cost options such as biosimilars are being embraced.