{"id":24350,"date":"2025-05-07T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24350"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:01:51","slug":"pbms-and-pharmacy-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24350","title":{"rendered":"PBMs and pharmacy closures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those independent pharmacies, excluded from Medicare Part D networks, were more likely to close. A new research study conducted by USC demonstrated that pharmacy networks designed by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are contributing to the growing problem of pharmacy closures. You can find the excerpt and link to the research study <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20250506\/Retail-pharmacies-excluded-from-Medicare-Part-D-networks-at-higher-risk-of-closure.aspx\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8434\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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>Those independent pharmacies, excluded from Medicare Part D networks, were more likely to close. A new research study conducted by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,1638],"tags":[238,65,425,1603],"class_list":["post-24350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-pbms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pbm-industry","tag-pharmacy-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350","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=24350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24351,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions\/24351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}