Mail Order vs. Local Prescriptions

Mechanicsburg, Pa. – Some big health insurance companies favor using mail-order pharmacies because it saves the insurance company money. Some critics, however, say it’s limiting consumer choice.
If you want to speak with the corporate office at the Medicine Shoppe in Mechanicsburg, you’ll find him right behind the [...]

Drugstores, pharmacy-benefit managers vie for prescriptions

Bob Schreiber’s business in Morrisville, Burns Pharmacy, was briefly famous as the setting for a scene in Signs, the M. Night Shyamalan movie that depicts a scary alien invasion threatening a Bucks County farm family.Nearly a decade later, the disturbing threat to Schreiber and at least some of his customers isn’t an alien.
It’s the growing [...]

Pharmacist group calls on CMS to bolster e-prescribing safeguards in new ‘meaningful use’ rule

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) is calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enhance the patient safeguards in the “meaningful use” rule unveiled by the agency Tuesday.
Doctors, for instance, should be required to perform safety checks before receiving incentive payments for e-prescribing, the group said Tuesday. Additionally, PCMA President and [...]