Advocating for underserved communities en Español và Tiếng Việt | Clinical Pharmacist | Patient Advocate | Educator
{🔔 Call to action below!} Pharmacy deserts in real time, with data going back to 2015.. These are staggering numbers. Each dot represents a zip code, an entire community, without a single pharmacy in it. Now look at those dots again; let that sink in. But we can’t let that rage or despair paralyze us; we need to take action. 🔔 CALL TO ACTION: 🔔 Contact your congresspeople and urge them to support HR 9096: The Pharmacists Fight Back Act. This already has bipartisan support because folks know this is not a political issue, it’s a public health issue. Email your rep: https://lnkd.in/gVey7bmq Or to call your rep: https://lnkd.in/gjN-t8UF And shoutout to Kentucky Pharmacists Association for the email template provided above! Link to NYT article: https://lnkd.in/gVqa38xS
Managing Director and Retail Analyst at GlobalData Retail
An interesting map from The New York Times shows how many pharmacy deserts – zip codes with no pharmacy – have been created since 2015. Apparently, nearly 800 zip codes that had at least one pharmacy in 2015 now have none. A lot of the closures are from independent pharmacies. One of the principal problems on the prescription side is that they are, increasingly, reimbursed at too low a rate by pharmacy benefit managers. Sometimes the reimbursements do not even cover the wholesale cost of the drugs. Faced with this, many drugstores have simply opted to close. The New York Times does a great job of breaking down the issues and problems with PBMs and their impact, especially on poorer and more rural areas. There’s a link to the full article in the comments. #retail #retailnews #pharmacy #drugstores #prescription #PBM