The retail space in Roxbury that had been vacated by Walgreens for more than a year has a new tenant: Vicente’s Supermarket, ...
The five local Walgreens stores to be closed are all on the city’s South and West sides, serving African American and Latino ...
These closures are creating ‘pharmacy deserts,’ areas where the ratio of people to pharmacies has reached near critical levels. Indeed, data from Gophr’s ‘Prescription for Pressure ...
A half-million Minnesotans live in pharmacy deserts, according to a report issued earlier this year by the state Department of Health. “Many more live in areas that are at risk of becoming ...
Pharmacists are praising a bill under consideration in the Iowa House and Senate that would set new restrictions on pharmacy ...
Drugstore Deserts On Rise Amid Nationwide Pharmacy Closures Nearly 30 percent of US pharmacies closed between 2010 and 2021, according to a new study in the health-policy publication Health Affairs.
Some of the stores that are shutting down are in communities of color. “What that does is it leaves a pharmacy desert,” said Dr. Marcus Howard, Ph.D., founder and owner of GreaterHealth ...
The Iowa legislation would require PBMs to reimburse pharmacies for the national or Iowa average acquisition drug costs.
Pharmacy benefits managers act as intermediaries between health plans, drug manufacturers and pharmacies, but their lack of ...