Nonfoods Archive
Walgreens to Acquire Specialty Pharmacy
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens said this week that it will acquire Option Care, Buffalo Grove, Ill., by merger....
Congress Only Hope for Medicaid Changes: CMS Director
BOSTON — Despite an industrywide outcry, a Medicaid official held out little hope for timely changes to the new prescription reimbursement regulations, unless CMS is forced to do so by Congress. ...
Supermarkets Outpace Drug Chains for Customer Service: Study
BOSTON — Supermarkets with pharmacies are outpacing chain drug stores by many important customer-service measures, according to data presented here this week by James Wilson, president, Wilson Health Information, New Hope, Pa., during the Pharmacy and Technology Conference of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Va. ...
NACDS Honors Five in Pharmacy Community
BOSTON — Five awards were presented to industry leaders here this week at the Pharmacy & Technology Conference of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Va., that included generous contributions to the NACDS Foundation from several distinguished companies. ...
Personal Health Records Can Obtain Consumer Acceptance: Speaker
BOSTON — Personal health records may attain greater consumer acceptance with consumers than electronic health records, said Robert Burg, vice president, business development, Medem, West Chester, Pa. ...
Former Sen. Frist Tells NACDS Meeting About Future Health Care
BOSTON — Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader William H. Frist addressed the Pharmacy & Technology Conference of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Va., this week in a speech that was unusual for a politician at a trade show in that it directly referenced the interests of his audience....
Bernauer: New Technologies Key to Customer Service
BOSTON — In a “State of the Industry” speech, Dave Bernauer, former Walgreens chairman and current board chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Va., said new technologies will save pharmacists hours that can better be spent with customers. ...
New NACDS President Urges Emphasis on Policy
BOSTON — In terms of health policy, the pharmacy business must do a better job of communicating its story to Washington, said Steven Anderson, president and chief executive officer, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Va., as he addressed the group’s Pharmacy & Technology Conference for the first time here yesterday. ...
GENERICS: ONE YEAR LATER
Eleven monthly refills have passed since Wal-Mart Stores' disruptive decision to offer certain generic drugs for $4 per 30-day supply. Although many supermarkets...
Publix Free Antibiotics Plan Is Its Only Rx Program
LAKELAND, Fla. — The free generic antibiotics program announced by Publix Super Markets Monday was reported to have marked the end of its price-matching policy on Wal-Mart Stores’ $4 generic prescription deal, but Publix told SN yesterday that it never had a price-matching policy. ...
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