{"id":23534,"date":"2024-10-24T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23534"},"modified":"2024-10-24T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:02:54","slug":"pbm-math-big-chains-are-paid-23-55-to-fill-a-blood-pressure-rx-small-drugstores-1-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23534","title":{"rendered":"PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Andy Miller for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CUTHBERT, Ga. \u2014 While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice cream, homemade cake, or cookies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a bake sale, but the sweets bring extra revenue as pharmacist and co-owner Nikki Bryant works to achieve profitability at her business on the town square.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/pbm-pharmacy-benefit-managers-independent-drugstores-versus-big-chain-prices\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/pbm-pharmacy-benefit-managers-independent-drugstores-versus-big-chain-prices\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andy Miller for KFF Health News) CUTHBERT, Ga. \u2014 While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[238,65,425],"class_list":["post-23534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pbm-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23535,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions\/23535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}