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Fast Company
April 2005
Jena McGregor |
Active Ingredients PrairieStone Pharmacy's strategy for technology helps customer service focus.   |
Managed Care
October 2001
Patrick Mullen |
Interview: Pharmacists in Need The executive vice president and CEO of the American Pharmaceutical Association says pharmacists are being inundated and need help... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2010 |
Pharmacies are Our Friends An underutilized sales resource, pharmacies and their staffs can help lead to improved scrip fulfillment and increased business. |
Managed Care
April 2002
Rhonda Greenapple |
HMOs Have Stake in Quelling Anger at Drug Store Counters Dissatisfied customers have a tendency to lash out and not be very discriminating about their targets. Prescription: Reduce the hassle... |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Drug Costs Giving You a Headache? If you want to cut your prescription drug costs, you can do more than just switch to generic brands. Shop around and ask questions. It's your health, and it's your money. |
Job Journal
August 21, 2005
Julia Hollister |
As America Ages, Pharmacists Flourish Demand for more druggists is swelling as baby boomers age. According to Department of Labor statistics, the outlook for employment is excellent and that trend is expected to continue for at least the next seven years. |
Fast Company
February 2003
Christine Canabou |
Take the Cure Inside the world's largest, most advanced pharmacy. |
Job Journal
February 25, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Pharmacy Technician The shortage of both pharmacists and pharmacist technicians is projected to get worse, meaning plenty of job opportunities. |
Job Journal
July 27, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Pharmacy Careers: Filling the Needs of an Aging Nation America's aging population ensures long-term demand for pharmacy specialists. |
Managed Care
September 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Mail Order Pharmacy Saves Money, Says PCMA, but at What Cost? The savings to consumers and employers are apparent, but are health plans left holding the bag in mail-order pharmacy? |
Managed Care
May 2004
Thomas G. Dolan |
Pharmacist Care An Idea Whose Time Is Still Coming For more than a decade, it has seemed this idea would catch fire. But many insurers are still looking for evidence that it can reduce overall costs. |
Chemistry World
June 5, 2015 |
A prescription for chemists The Public attitudes to chemistry survey revealed that many people confuse chemists with pharmacists. |
Inc.
September 2007
Bobbie Gossage |
How I Did It: Charles Hallberg, Founder and CEO, MemberHealth How Charles Hallberg turned a 13 person company into a $630 million business. |
Managed Care
September 2006
Martin Sipkoff |
Specialty Pharmacy Grows As Cost-Control Option As the population ages, specialty pharmacy is becoming a unique, profitable, and invaluable delivery system. Plans are increasingly turning to specialty pharmacies to provide the expertise they lack. |
Managed Care
September 2005 |
It's Good to be a Pharmacist in California Salaries for staff pharmacists saw a healthy jump of 5.5% in 2005, compared to 2004. |
Managed Care
January 2008
Thomas Kaye |
Now Is the Time for Pharmacy Performance Incentives We've made strides in increasing the transparency of pricing in the pharmacy supply chain, and now we need to change dispensing behavior. |
Managed Care
December 2004 |
Go West, Young Pharmacist The pharmacy profession continues to pay well, though where somebody practices has much to do with just how well, according to the 2004 Pharmacy Compensation Survey. |
Managed Care
August 2001
Patrick Mullen |
The Expanding Role of Pharmacists Lobbying in Washington, monitoring state legislation and generally looking out for the interests of pharmacy programs run by health care plans and pharmacy benefit managers, Judith Cahill leads the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at an exciting, critical time... |
Managed Care
December 2001 |
Errors Traced To Counters of Pharmacists One place where patient ignorance often goes unaddressed is at the pharmacy counter, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association... |
Managed Care
May 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Medication Therapy Management May Finally Enter the Mainstream Pharmacies can now take advantage of CPT codes to bill insurers for direct patient care. Will private payers follow Medicare in offering this service? |
Managed Care
October 2005 |
Health Plans Pay Less When PBM Owns Mail-Order Pharmacy The ongoing debate on whether health plans pay more for drugs when using a mail-order pharmacy owned by a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) or when the mail-order pharmacy is not owned by a PBM may be closer to resolution. |
Managed Care
August 2004
Alan Lotvin |
Specialty Pharmacy Presents Unique Set of Challenges Only a small percent of a typical health plan's population takes medicine for conditions outside the generalist's scope. But it's a big portion of the drug bill. |
Managed Care
September 2003
Tony Berberabe |
Pharmacy Benefit Starts To Reflect Push for Consumer-Directed Care Health insurance plans looking for a low-risk way to experiment with new benefit designs might start with the pharmacy benefit. |
CRM
October 2012
Leonard Klie |
IVR Gives This Pharmacy a Healthy Boost TalkRx keeps a small, family-owned drugstore chain competitive with national rivals. |
Job Journal
November 28, 2004
Rich Heintz |
Medical Careers: The Rx for Offshoring Looking for a career no one (as yet) can outsource overseas? Consider a position in healthcare. Here are three examples -- medical careers critical to the care of an aging population. |
Managed Care
September 2007 |
Income Said To Influence Use of Generics An observational analysis of pharmacy claims collected from 2001 to 2003 finds that where a person lives and the socioeconomic implications of that location have a lot do with his use of generic drugs. |
Managed Care
July 2000
John Carroll |
Physicians Reconsider Taking On Pharmacy Risk They've been burned here in the past, but physicians - and the HMOs that they contract with - may have learned some lessons. |
| AskMen.com |
You're Doing It Wrong Police in northern Idaho arrested a robber accused of demanding a controlled drug from a pharmacy, then throwing cash on the counter before fleeing. |
Managed Care
March 2006
Martin Sipkoff |
Introducing an ROI Model For Pharmacy Services The finance department and pharmacy are not speaking the same language. This model might just bridge that divide. |
Managed Care
April 2002
Paula Sirois |
HMOs Should Prepare Now To Get Handle on Injectables With more than 360 biotech products in the pipeline, high-cost injectable drugs are about to flood the market. How will we control the expenditure? |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2005
Brian Gorman |
GM Pulls Out of Walgreen The pharmacy's mail-order policy spurs the automaker's cost-containment decision. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2009
Brian Orelli |
A Good Business Model for Bad Times Some businesses benefit when people are hurting. It's a beautiful time to be a pharmacy benefit manager, since that business model essentially results in them making more money when their customers save money. |
Managed Care
March 2000
Tim Sawyers |
Test Prospective PBM Before Signing Contract How to select, then monitor a pharmacy benefit management company, from a consultant and former HMO director of pharmacy services. |
Managed Care
August 2005
Michael S. Victoroff |
When Personal and Professional Collide When a pharmacist - for personal beliefs - refuses to fill a prescription, the health plan should be very concerned. |
Managed Care
May 2003
Wayne Miller |
Higher Drug Copays Now Might Cause Problems Later The long-term impact of noncompliance must be considered before copayments are increased. This is especially true where chronic conditions are concerned. |
Managed Care
May 2004 |
Biologics Among Fastest Growers Managed care plans and pharmacy benefit managers can benefit from the strong generic presence in the market, but also face challenges relating to biotech drugs. |
Managed Care
February 2008 |
Choosing a City for Mail Order Pharmacy The highs and lows of operating a mail order pharmacy. |
Managed Care
March 2007 |
Plans, PBMs Step up Infotech Initiatives Over the next three years, large and small health plans and PBMs that are currently involved in emerging health information technologies are going to focus on increasing disease management programs and on providing personal digital assistants to physicians, according to a report. |
