I guess that compassion and empathy is no longer part of healthcare ?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

This showed up on Face Book page of CVS Highly highly disappointed in Fayetteville, WV pharmacy! I normally don’t fill Rx there however Wal Marts system was down and they no idea when they would be back up. I literally was just discharged from a reliable hospital an hour away due to having lost my […]

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How things has changed since we have middlemen to “save us money” ?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

I often post about the average prescription price was $4 – $5… before the PBM’s (prescription benefit managers) got into interfering with the prescription distribution system in  1970. This is two prescriptions for Marilyn Monroe from 1962 with prices on them.. the average for those five BRAND NAME medications was $5.01 and four of them […]

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