DEERFIELD, Ill. — New research from Walgreen Co. sheds light on how value-based insurance design (VBID) programs can be optimized by targeting the sickest, least adherent and most costly patients. Walgreens said Wednesday that the findings, presented at the 2014 PBMI Drug Benefit Conference in Las Vegas, demonstrate how targeted employer prescription programs improve medication
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Members of Congress have contacted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to express support of an agency proposal on preferred pharmacy networks in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans for 2015. The National Community Pharmacists Association said Wednesday that Reps. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R., Ga.) have
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Unilever has signed an agreement with marketing communications specialist WPP to provide customized shopper marketing in the United States. The consumer products giant said Wednesday that a new group within the agency — to be called Team Unilever Shopper — will provide custom shopper marketing solutions leveraging resources from multiple WPP
NEW YORK — New York’s attorney general and a state lawmaker have proposed what they call the nation’s first legislation to ban plastic microbeads in commonly used cosmetics. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Long Island Assemblyman Robert Sweeney said Tuesday that the Microbead-Free Waters Act will prohibit the sale in New York of
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sixty-three percent of Americans say they wouldn’t be bothered by someone using an electronic cigarette nearby, according to the 2014 American E-Cigarette Etiquette Survey commissioned by e-cigarette maker Mistic. Mistic said Tuesday that the telephone poll of 1,011 U.S. adults, conducted by Harris Interactive, is the first national study to assess American
LOS ANGELES — Milani Cosmetics has announced a new executive team and gave a peek at its marketing and new products plans for 2014. Milani said Tuesday that chief executive officer Ralph Bijou and president Laurie Minc conducted a "painstaking and rigorous interview process" in appointing executives to take leadership roles at the beauty care
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid Corp. has announced the winners of its 2013 Favorite Pharmacy Team Member contest: a pharmacy cashier from Cliffside Park, N.J., and a loyal customer of the drug chain’s store in Mansfield, Mass. Rite Aid said Wednesday that both winners were chosen randomly from more than 14,000 entries in the
WASHINGTON — Three former U.S. senators have formed a coalition with companies focused on health care delivery — including the nation’s largest drug chains — to promote policy reform around telehealth and remote patient monitoring. A telehealth station from HealthSpot, one of the alliance’s board members. Former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle (D., S.D.) and
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Fruth Pharmacy has announced Jeff Haffner and John Mourat as its Pharmacists of the Year for 2013. From left: Tim Weber, vice president of pharmacy at Fruth Pharmacy; Pharmacists of the Year Jeff Haffner and John Mourat; and Lynne Fruth, president of Fruth Pharmacy. The regional drug chain said Haffner and
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreen Co. is collaborating with National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) to encourage African-Americans with HIV to get recommended vaccinations. Walgreens said Tuesday that, as the incidence of flu and pneumonia rises, it’s deepening pharmacist training and expanding access to the pneumococcal vaccine specifically indicated for people with HIV. Pneumococcal vaccinations for people with
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — The Medicine Shoppe in Mount Vernon, Ill., reports improved efficiency in the pharmacy — and more opportunity to concentrate on patient care — since the recent implementation of an automation solution from Innovation. The pharmacy automation provider said Tuesday that the Mount Vernon Medicine Shoppe deployed a two-tower RxSafe robotic storage
ST. LOUIS — Ron Otto, president of National Sales Solutions (NSS), and Angie Echele, president of Retail Smarter, are slated to speak at two conferences hosted by ECRM in Cannes, France, starting this weekend. The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) sales and marketing firms said Tuesday that Otto and Echele will present "An Insider’s
GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. — Kinney Drugs has opened a Healthy You Wellness Center at one of its stores in Syracuse, N.Y., under a collaborative health care partnership with Pulmonary Health Physicians and Franciscan Companies, an affiliate of St. Joseph’s Hospital. The regional drug chain said late Monday that the walk-in Healthy You Wellness Center, staffed by
ST. LOUIS — Mallinckrodt has announced the commercial launch of Pennsaid 2% (w/w), a treatment for pain from knee osteoarthritis. "We are excited to make Pennsaid 2% available for patients who suffer from pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee," Hugh O’Neill, senior vice president and president of U.S. specialty pharmaceuticals for Mallinckrodt, said in
