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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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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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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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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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Pharmacists: Partners in Health
If a health insurance executive can't figure out how deductibles work, who can? Your pharmacist.
Jun 26, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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May 2022
On catalogs and MACs
Pharmacy organizations have fought against the MAC pricing rules of PBMs for years, but seemingly no one has ever tried to make these prices readily…
May 3, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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April 2022
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…
Apr 19, 2022
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March 2022
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…
Mar 29, 2022
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Benjamin Jolley
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People don't care about total drug prices
They care about out of pocket costs, so PBMs are the RIGHT target in Biden's quest to reduce drug prices.
Mar 28, 2022
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