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Patients Before Monopolies
The fundamental problem in pharmacy is that the payment system is corrupt.
May 17
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Benjamin Jolley
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January 2025
It's the RxMOOPs!
The IRA of 2022 made some big changes to Medicare. The most meaningful of those changes is the amusingly named "$2000 RxMOOP." I muse on what those…
Jan 4
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Benjamin Jolley
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It's the RxMOOPs!
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December 2024
Formularies, Formulary Strategies, and Vigilante Formulary Review
Formularies are rationing by bureaucrats. Sometimes they make decisions that look insane to people outside of their bubble, or nakedly profit-seeking.
Dec 27, 2024
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Benjamin Jolley
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October 2024
Response to "Safelite is a PBM"
Matt Stoller wrote up Safelite's similarities to the PBM industry. This July I had wonderfully bad luck and had two separate windshield-rock incidents.
Oct 1, 2024
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Benjamin Jolley
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Response to "Safelite is a PBM"
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September 2024
2275 pharmacies have closed so far in 2024
My profession is really struggling. We need help.
Sep 17, 2024
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Benjamin Jolley
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2275 pharmacies have closed so far in 2024
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September 2023
DSCSA
FDA announced on 8/25/23 that they are exercising enforcement discretion for DSCSA EDDS. What the heck does that mean?
Sep 26, 2023
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Benjamin Jolley
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April 2023
Express Scripts on the Road to Damascus?
The political pressure around PBMs has apparently given ESI's leadership a Paulian vision. The tone-deafness and clinical errors in their release belie…
Apr 23, 2023
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Benjamin Jolley
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October 2022
PBMs <3 Counterfeit Drugs
PBMs pay pharmacies a reimbursement ceiling that is below the wholesale cost of goods floor for the retail class of trade to independent pharmacies…
Oct 26, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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September 2022
FTC Chair Khan will be at NCPA 2022
NCPA 2022 is now the antitrust-nerd-pharmacist's comic-con
Sep 12, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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August 2022
Unsolved Mysteries: NPI spoofing
Someone has been submitting claims to PBMs pretending they are part of our pharmacy. We're not the only affected pharmacy. I want it to stop.
Aug 19, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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June 2022
A pharmacy's layout tells its history
By walking through a pharmacy's physical inventory, you can tell a lot about the operator of that pharmacy.
Jun 29, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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Branded Drugs are upside down
Why does the pharmacy market treat the highest ticket items as a loss leader for the lowest ticket items?
Jun 28, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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