Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit …

Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy … choice of either home delivery or pharmacy pick-up a requirement for insurance eligibility. The program introduces an … implicit default for those who don't make an active choice: pharmacy pick-up without insurance subsidies. Under this program …

In the U.S., pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) manage prescription drug purchases for payers. Firms selling branded …

utilize preferred pharmacy networks to reduce drug prices. We show that, in the Medicare Part D program, drug plans with more … restrictive preferred pharmacy networks, and plans with fewer enrollees who are insensitive to preferred pharmacy discounts on … copays, pay lower retail drug prices. We then use estimates of plan and pharmacy demand to estimate the first-order costs and …

Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) from sponsored search listings. Using comScore click-through data originated from health …

Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low … the changing nature of pharmacy employment with the growth of large national pharmacy chains and hospitals and the related … decline of independent pharmacies played key roles in the creation of a more family-friendly, female-friendly pharmacy …

This paper provides the first quantitative economic models of pharmacy benefit management regulation. The price …; disclosure requirements such as the PBM Transparency Act of 2023; and pharmacy contract restrictions such as the CMS Medicare …