Sun-Times: Medicare wants pharmacists out of Plan D decision-making process

Dec 16 2010
Chicago Sun-Times: Medicare Wants Pharmacists Out Of Plan D Decision-Making Process
Walgreens pharmacists are no longer giving customers advice on which Medicare Part D plans best work with the customers' prescriptions by the Dec. 31 deadline, and a Medicare spokesman says that's a good thing. … [P]harmacies get rewarded for putting or keeping customers in plans or prescriptions administered by so-called Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs (Guy, 12/15).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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