After being in my informatics class for about 2 months I can honestly say that I am learning a lot. I already had an twitter account, but I was using it for personal reasoning. Now, while in this class I started to follow some healthcare professionals and organizations. From this I found an interesting article about Independent pharmacies and their future. Here's the link.
http://pharmacytimes.com/web-exclusives/Independent-Pharmacsts-Face-Challenges-Head-On
The article goes into great detail about how independent pharmacies' futures are in jeopardy. Express scripts and Medco are potentially merging together to almost monopolize the pharmacy market. This will greatly affect independent pharmacies as they try to get medications and scripts for their pharmacies to continue their business. Also, it also talks a new payout system for medicaid which will give them a lower payout. Thus, the lower reimbursements will have a lower margin for profits. Take a look and tell what you think.
It seems unfortunate that this will affect independent pharmacies the most since they are already competing with major retail pharmacies for business. It also seems like it will affect all pharmacies in regards to lower reimbursements by medicaid. A "New" payout system usually means lower reimbursements with nothing that pharmacies can do about it.
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