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AMA urges pharmacy reform to deliver lower medicine prices
20 April 2023 - The AMA says it’s high time recommendations from more than a dozen expert reports and inquiries over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2023
AMA urges immediate action to save patients on PBS medicines
9 March 2023 - The AMA has urged all members of the Federal Parliament to support the AMA’s campaign to bring ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Feb 2023
Who helps keep drug costs affordable? Pharmacy benefit managers.
14 February 2023 - You may have noticed an inordinate number of television commercials offering opinions on the price of prescription ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Feb 2023
AMA calls for two months of medicines to be dispensed from a single script
12 February 2023 - The Federal Government must show leadership and implement the recommendations of the independent PBAC to increase the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Feb 2023
Biden’s SOTU targets drug companies, but misses opportunity to challenge health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers
8 February 2023 - President Biden’s State of the Union Address hammered home the point that drug prices must come down. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2023
Amazon’s RxPass doesn’t yet really compete with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company
3 February 2023 - Amazon is adding RxPass to its pharmacy footprint. Purportedly, it’s competing with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2023
‘Enough sickness’ to share GP load among pharmacists, nurses
2 February 2023 - Pharmacy Guild of Australia president Trent Twomey says there is enough “demand and sickness” to allow ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2023
Distribution markups and taxes for prescription pharmaceuticals: do we see the complete picture of the pharmaceutical price?
30 January 2023 - An analysis presented at the ISPOR Europe 2021 conference highlighted considerable variability across countries in how much ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jan 2023
Amazon’s bold $5 prescription drug program is the future of pharmacy
28 January 2023 - Amazon is taking yet another bold step into the world of health care, further solidifying its powerful ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2023
Introducing RxPass from Amazon Pharmacy, a $5 prescription subscription that helps Prime members who take multiple medications save time and money
24 January 2023 - In addition to all the savings, convenience, and entertainment they already enjoy, Prime members can now receive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jan 2023
Pharmacy benefit managers and the Federal Trade Commission: a relationship gone sour
9 January 2023 - On 7 June 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced its decision to launch an inquiry into the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2022
Mark Cuban has taken on pharmacy benefit managers and forever disrupted healthcare in America
19 November 2022 - Imagine finding out that there is a drug on the market for your terminal disease. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Nov 2022
NSW pharmacists to prescribe the pill, antibiotics in health shake-up
13 November 2022 - Pharmacists will be able to prescribe a range of meds and repeat scripts under a NSW government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Sep 2022
Pharmacists can now prescribe Paxlovid, but barriers persist
19 September 2022 - Recently, the FDA expanded access to COVID-19 treatment by authorising state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid to eligible ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2022
New Zealand allowed pharmacists to dispense COVID-19 antivirals and 'everyone realised it was a win'
6 August 2022 - With Australians dying from COVID-19 every day and nearly 5,000 people in hospital with the disease, experts ...