Pharmacies are turning to AI and robotics to handle dispensing, ease staff workload, and spend more time with patients rather ...

Throughout 2025, Congress introduced several bills related to the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry. As with the 118th Congress in 2024 ...

August 21, 2012 — Physicians who dispense pain medications and other commonly used drugs to workers' compensation (WC) patients charge up to 3 times more than pharmacies in some states, according to a ...

The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report this week on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty ...

New York hospitals are increasingly automating pharmacy functions to free up staff and improve the accuracy and safety of dispensing medicine. They have embraced robots to store, catalog and fill ...

Pharmacy directors are also responsible for providing a safe route for pharmaceutical deliveries from the receiving dock to the secure pharmacy. From the moment a delivery comes off the truck, it must ...

Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, speaks during a legislative meeting on Oct. 28, 2024. (Mary Hennigan/Arkansas Advocate) In a reversal, Arkansas legislators in a split vote Friday approved a ...

A district court dismissed an oncology trade association’s challenge to Stark law guidance prohibiting physicians from dispensing drugs in locations outside of their office on Aug. 30. The Community ...

MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill approved by the Alabama Senate sets a $10 drug dispensing fee for pharmacists while also seeking to regulate the companies that administer prescription drug plans ...

On 7th Street in northwest Washington, D.C., within sight of a children’s playground, stands a vending machine sponsored by a group called “HIPS” and the city’s health department. The vending machine ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Under a new law regulating PBMs, or pharmacy benefit managers, you could be paying an extra $10 for your prescriptions. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, among others, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Alabama ...