GoodRx Unveils Cost-Plus Model for Independent Pharmacies
GoodRx launched Community Link, a new cost-plus pricing program that allows independent pharmacies to contract directly with GoodRx.
There is Still a Significant Need for Community Pharmacies
Losing these retail medication outlets creates more than just pharmacy deserts. In many low-income and underserved areas, drugstores also serve as grocery stores and hubs for essential services, and hence their closures mean communities lose crucial access points for a variety of goods and services.
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Why the FTC’s recent decision to not study PBMs might hurt consumers and independent pharmacies
With its ruling to maintain the status quo, the FTC has decided to take a back-seat and force independent pharmacies to fend for themselves in their on-going fight to secure access to fair prices that allow them to stay in business and continue to serve their local communities and the well-being of their patients.
Pharmacists join chorus calling for DOJ to stop Optum-Change Healthcare merger
Independent and community pharmacies seek to prevent UHG and Change merging into a "corporate monster" that will stifle competition.
‘It’s not really price transparency’: Pharmacies push back on Surescripts, GoodRx deal
Several pharmacies signed a letter asking Surescripts’ board to rescind its deal with GoodRx. They said the deal would not reveal the true cost of medications, and might steer patients away from independent pharmacies.