Emily Savage and Michael Daher, who manage Myrtle Drugs in Myrtle Creek, told the House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee during an online hearing on Jan. 24, 2023, that pharmacy benefit managers' business practices are destabilizing independent pharmacies.
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In a state where retail pharmacies have been disappearing fast, merger of pharmacy operators could hurt Oregonians' access. The state has scheduled a public hearing for comment.
Bills concerning treatment centers, violence against hospital staff, school health and insurance mandates perished, but other impactful bills made it through
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A Kaiser Permanente pharmacy.
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The new bill seeks to address concerns from municipal governments that helped sink it last time
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Pharmacists Anaïs Webster Mennuti of Oregon (right) and Kristin Speer of Colorado traveled to interview pharmacists and others for the upcoming documentary “Harmacy.”
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Announced shortly before open enrollment begins, the deal affects PacificSource members, but the Central Oregon hospital system has not yet reached Medicare Advantage agreements with Humana, HealthNet and WellCare
With rural access to health care and pharmacies a hot topic, a national deal is getting closer scrutiny from the state’s relatively new health care merger review program