pharmacies

Independent rural pharmacists are starting other businesses or selling baby shower gifts to keep their stores operating. Pharmacy deserts affect 4 million Texans.

Senate Bill 360 was the original bill introduced to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.

Legislators share frustration with inaction on two bills tied to pricing of medicine

The Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance passed the bill last week, but it still needs approval from the full Senate and House.

As health insurance costs soar, lowering prescription prices could help. But that will require reforms in Jefferson City and Topeka.

Pharmacists in Kansas say pharmacy benefit managers, a group that helps determine what medications insurance covers and how much they cost, are choking them out of business.

Interests on both sides of the program — hospitals and drugmakers — say they are at the mercy of a program designed with the best of intentions, now run amok, hijacked by for-profit companies and wealthy hospitals trying to profit from its largesse.

Corner pharmacies, once widespread in large cities and rural hamlets alike, are disappearing from many areas of the country, leaving an estimated 41 million Americans in what are known as drugstore deserts.

A state agency said its redactions shield trade secrets. But the text below the black remained readable. So we took it to experts in antitrust and public records law.

Taxpayers and state employees could be paying too much for medications. Experts say a 16-page audit commissioned by Kansas doesn't dig in to find out.