With incentives from insurers, pharmacies refocus from snacks to drugs

Drug stores are returning to their roots — drugs, the (Raleigh N.C.) News and Observer/Scripps News reports. "After years of adding everything from groceries to grills to their inventory, drugstore chains are once again emphasizing their pharmacies. Pharmacists are being asked — and paid by insurance companies — to monitor their customers' health. That could include counseling them on chronic diseases, making sure they're taking their medications, and screening for maladies from diabetes to high cholesterol" (Stock, 10/27).

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