Drug Channels

Spring has officially arrived in sunny downtown Philadelphia—the proud home base of Drug Channels . As you can see on the right, we celebrat...

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for Friday’s live video webinar: Drug Channel Implications of the Inflation Redu...

Is the world ready for new ways to price pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) services? CVS Health thinks so, as evidenced by two new...

This week, Express Scripts announced an innovative pharmacy benefit contracting model for members of the National Drug Purchasing Coalition ...

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I attend the 2016 Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit. Click here to see the original post an...

Well, pierce my ears and call me drafty! Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released its long-...

Looks like stock prices aren't the only things that have stopped rising. As we predicted in April , generic price increases are slowin...

Retail generic drugs usually get cheaper over time, but my previous analyses have documented substantial generic inflation. Our latest exc...

This Thursday, the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, currently led by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), will hold a hearing...

Autumn has arrived! Time to gather your acorns, make fantasy football trades, and read my thoughts on these Drug Channels stories: Walgr...

Surprise! Retail generic drugs are no longer getting cheaper over time. Our latest exclusive analysis (below) finds that half of all ret...

Welcome to my latest round-up of noteworthy news stories from the Drug Channels ecosystem. In this issue: Inversion —How a Pfizer/AstraZene...

Our neverending winter is almost over! Get ready for an early spring with my monthly look at noteworthy new stories from the Drug Channels...

For an updated analysis, see Retail Generic Drug Inflation Reaches New Heights (August 2014). Retail generic drugs usually get cheaper ...

The Duchess of Cambridge wasn't the only one delivering a surprise yesterday . In an unexpected announcement, the Center for Medicare ...

You may recall that California was in the process of transitioning Medi-Cal pharmacy reimbursement from the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) ...

Supermarket chain Wegmans just extended its discount program for atorvastatin, the generic version of Lipitor. Through the end of 2013, the ...

Tuesday’s article— Surprise? CMS Computes and Publishes Pharmacy Prescription Profit Margins —generated a lot of email about the new Nationa...

Last week, Myers and Stauffer, the contractors collecting pharmacy acquisition costs and revenue data for the Center for Medicare and Medica...

The mystery deepens. In contrast to my comments in this morning's post , CMS just republished the NADAC and NARP data on its Survey ...