Blue Shield of California Looks to Cut Reliance on CVS Blue Shield of California Looks to Cut Reliance on CVS
Blue Shield of California plans to stop using most of CVS Health ' s pharmacy benefit management services and work with others in a bid to reduce drug costs for its insurance plan members.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pharmacist News Source Type: news

Cheap Sats as BTC Dips; 🇦🇷 Bitcoiner Wins Argentinian Primary; 🇪🇺 EU Gets 1st BTC EFT
Source: Reuters: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cancer in Kids Is Too High a Price for Cheap Gas
Source: Reuters: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

CVS Retains Blue Plan ’s Specialty Pharmacy Business And That’s Where Patient Costs Are
CVS will continue to provide Blue Shield of California members specialty pharmacy services, which manage the most costly medicines for patients and health plans.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 17, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Business /business Retail /retail pharma standard Source Type: news

Weight loss drugs are priced substantially higher in the U.S. than in other countries, analysis says
In this photo illustration, a box of the diabetes drug Ozempic rests on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Blockbuster weight loss drugs are priced significantly higher in the U.S. than in other large, high-income countries, according to a new analysis released…#kff #glp1 #novonordisk #sweden #ozempic #elililly #mounjaro #netherlands #representatives #obese
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Lahaina Worries About Real-Estate Speculators After Fire Destruction
Wildfires destroyed Lahaina. Now Hawaii officials are trying to ward off outsiders from scooping up properties on the cheap in the popular tourist destination.#lahaina #hawaii
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

CVS stock slides after Calif. insurer drops Caremark PBM
Blue Shield of California is dropping CVS's Caremark pharmacy-benefits manager to work with Amazon and Mark Cuban's Cost Drugs Plus, a move the insurer says could save up to $500 million in costs annually.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 17, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jess Aloe Source Type: news

Major Insurer Blue Shield Of California Drops CVS For Amazon, Cuban ’s Cost Plus Drugs In Cost-Cutting Move
Cost Plus Drug Company, Abarca and Amazon Pharmacy will replace a majority of the services currently provided by CVS Caremark.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 17, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news topline Source Type: news

NHS staff at Merseyside hospitals announce 48-hour strike after years of being underpaid
Over 400 health staff at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) will take strike action this month in a dispute over pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). The strike will take place at 7am on Thursday 31 August through to 6:59am on Saturday 2 September after an overwhelming majority (99%) of clinical support workers voted to strike in a recent UNISON ballot. Clinical support workers (CSWs) assist nursing staff in delivering care on the wards. They’re employed across the trust’s sites at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. UNISON says these employees should be pa...
Source: UNISON Health care news - August 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Lucy Shaddock Tags: News Press release clinical support workers pay fair for patient care strike Source Type: news

Breakingviews - Breakingviews: China slowdown creates cheap thrills for Tencent
A child plays the game "Honour of Kings" by Tencent at home in Dezhou, Shandong province, China July 2, 2017. Picture taken July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing Rights HONG KONG, Aug 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's economic woes have gifted Tencent (0700.HK) an unexpected silver…#kings #dezhou #shandongprovince #reutersbreakingviews #tencent #jamesmitchell #citi #refinitiv #pdd #hongkong
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

UK Watchdog Asks How Households Can Use Energy When It ’s Cheap
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NCPDP Foundation Awards $79,000 Grant to Digital Therapeutics Alliance to Address Key Barrier for Patient Access to Clinically Validated Digital Therapeutic Products
Digital Therapeutics Alliance to research current obstacles or barriers to health plan coverage of digital therapeutic (DTx) therapies and develop standardized pharmacy and medical benefit workflows to show how DTx products can be integrated into benefit designs. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug....
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - August 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT Source Type: news

Amazon Pharmacy Automates Insulin Discounts Amazon Pharmacy Automates Insulin Discounts
Amazon.com said on Tuesday its online pharmacy will automatically apply manufacturer-sponsored coupons to more than 15 insulin and diabetes medicines.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news

Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices
said on Tuesday its online pharmacy will automatically apply manufacturer-sponsored coupons to more than 15 insulin and diabetes medicines to help patients access discounts pledged by the drug industry. With the new program, patients using Amazon Pharmacy will no longer have to search for and…#amazoncom #amazonpharmacy #novonordisk #elilillyllyn #novo #lilly #sanofi #elizabethwarren #insulinlispro #vingupta
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Liver Concerns Foil GLP-1 Drug; Not Enough Menopause Training; Wegovy Supply Limits
(MedPage Today) -- Pfizer dropped development of lotiglipron, its investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist for obesity, due to elevated liver enzymes; could other agents in the drug class carry similar risks? (Fierce Biotech) Amazon Pharmacy plans...
Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology - August 16, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

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