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2275 pharmacies have closed so far in 2024
My profession is really struggling. We need help.
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Benjamin Jolley
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An almost perfect $111,756.58 crime
We very nearly got conned out of $111,000 worth of drug product by what I assume was the actual mafia. I offer thoughts on how to stop this from…
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Benjamin Jolley
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Patients Before Monopolies
The fundamental problem in pharmacy is that the payment system is corrupt.
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Benjamin Jolley
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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…
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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?
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Benjamin Jolley
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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…
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Benjamin Jolley
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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.
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Benjamin Jolley
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Pharmacists: Partners in Health
If a health insurance executive can't figure out how deductibles work, who can? Your pharmacist.
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Benjamin Jolley
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IndyHealth, Glumetza, AWP spread, and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things™
In an AWP-based world, only the scammers survive
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Benjamin Jolley
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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…
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Benjamin Jolley
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DSCSA
FDA announced on 8/25/23 that they are exercising enforcement discretion for DSCSA EDDS. What the heck does that mean?
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Benjamin Jolley
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Asking the wrong questions
In attempts to mislead the public, lobbyists answer the wrong questions. People of good faith should respond not by disputing these answers, but by…
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Benjamin Jolley
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