Ten medications accounted for about 28.6% of the $100 billion in 340B outpatient drug purchases in 2025, according to new data from HRSA released July 13. The figure comes as 340B purchases hit a record $100 billion for the year,…
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Hospital pharmacy teams have spent years getting good at spending less. Finding the cheaper equivalent, negotiating a better contract, catching and fixing overcharges. It’s worked, and it’s still the top financial priority for most teams: 72% of pharmacy teams leaders…
Every patient asking about a new medication has the same question. Dr. Robert Granko, System Vice President, Pharmacy Business Operations at UNC Health, puts it plainly. “Can I get my medication, and can I get it in time at a…
Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network has opened Westchester Medical Center Specialty Pharmacy to expand access to coordinated pharmacy services for patients with complex, chronic and rare conditions. The in-network specialty pharmacy integrates physicians, pharmacists and patients to support…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based West Virginia University Health System has agreed to pay $4.2 million and enter a three-year compliance agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration to resolve allegations it violated multiple provisions of the Controlled Substances Act across dozens of registered…
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Rejections of initial brand-name prescription attempts increased from 24.3% in 2018 to 40.7% in 2024, according to a July 9 JAMA study. Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Enterprise Institute led the study.…
The FDA has approved Sanofi’s subcutaneous Sarclisa Escena in combination with standard-of-care regimens for patients with multiple myeloma across all existing indications of the intravenous formulation, making it the first anticancer treatment administered through an on-body injector. Sarclisa Escena is…
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For decades, the friction between a prescription and a patient was accepted as part of the process. Now, pharmacy leaders are closing that gap with AI because “to wait one moment longer is untenable.” Pharmacy has become one of healthcare’s…
A new CDC analysis is challenging assumptions about where pharmacy access in the U.S. is worst — and the answer isn’t rural America. Researchers from the Minnesota Department of Health and University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy mapped pharmacy access…
The FDA has classified a recall of more than 2.5 million bottles of prescription prednisolone acetate eye drops as Class II after the product was found to contain a foreign substance. The recall affects 2,530,182 bottles of Prednisolone Acetate Ophthalmic…