Since there are no more excess Canadian drugs, we are getting drugs shipped (in) from Canada from pharmacies in India and elsewhere, ... We worry about the strength, quality and purity of medicines made around the world.
Quotes about pharmacies (16 Quotes)
It's a pharmacies and a pharmacists duty to always care for patient needs first.
That's a dying breed, ... Pharmacies are really struggling to find ways to make their business models work.
We're going to wind up seeing a lot of pharmacies close. That's the second shoe. East of I-95 or west of Charlotte, there are a lot of counties that only have one pharmacy who gets 70 percent and 80 percent of his business from these federal plans.
We are working closely with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure that people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid -- or 'dual eligible' beneficiaries -- will receive their needed medications at all of our Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacies. Our pharmacies can work with most prescription plans, so if our customers or members have more than one card, we can process them all. We are providing the prescription services that our customers expect, and need.
This new hurricane presents enormous additional challenges and hardships for everyone affected, and Aetna will do what we can to help our members get care and comfort, ... With so many people cut off from their usual physicians, hospitals and pharmacies, we are expanding our efforts to help members, in addition to continuing coverage even if they are unable to make premium payments.
The retail pharmacies in this area were doing 600 to 700 prescriptions a day. So I knew that the business was there.
We are excited about our partnering relationship with DSC Logistics and most importantly, excited to offer our drug wholesalers, chain drug stores, mass merchandisers and independent pharmacies the ability to capitalize from the benefits of this new relationship, ... Through the relationship with C200, DSC Logistics and Kramer Labs were able to forge a relationship that will improve our overall business operations and provide our valued customers with accurate and timely delivery of our products.
While the number of individuals who benefit from a price registry appear to be small, the one number we're really concerned about is the potential cost to the state and pharmacies to administer such a program.
A successful Medicaid prescription drug program needs the support of America's 55,000 pharmacies and nearly 150,000 pharmacists who work with Medicaid patients every day. There are many ways to protect the financial future of the Medicaid prescription drug benefit without jeopardizing the future of community pharmacy.
Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.
Canada imports 94 of its prescription drugs and regulates the prices at levels much lower than in the U.S. Internet pharmacies then sell those cheap drugs to Americans, some states legalizing this trade.
In the event there is a problem, the pharmacies would be subject to a remedy imposed by the state. When the pharmacies are contracted, the only remedy is a civil action.
Medicare beneficiaries would never accept a drug benefit with sharply reduced drug choices and very limited access to pharmacies.
Pharmacies have been bending over backwards. They are waiting on hold for hours trying to get approval for their customers. They haven't been given any special numbers to help them get through any faster than the rest of us.
It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level. There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home, ... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers.