Perspectives

7/28/2025 7:51:28 PM

PBMs Double Down on Cross Network Termination over “Affiliated” Pharmacies

By Dae Lee

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have long dominated the independent pharmacy landscape with little oversight and expansive discretion....

7/22/2025 8:31:29 PM

By Caitlin Collins Dae Lee Lucas Morgan

Established in 1992, the 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to enable eligible healthcare providers, called covered entities, to...

7/22/2025 8:24:20 PM

By Caitlin Collins Dae Lee Lucas Morgan

Pharmacies across the United States operate under a complex web of regulations implemented and enforced by individual state Boards of...

7/22/2025 4:18:17 PM

By Carrie Amezcua William Boak

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently moved to continue the stays of pending appeals of successful challenges to its controversial...

7/18/2025 1:28:36 PM

By Dae Lee

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney recently secured a major win for an independent pharmacy facing revocation of its Medicare enrollment as a...

7/18/2025 1:24:53 PM

By Daniel McGee

In a recent article published in Mexico Business News, Raul Elizalde Garza, CEO of HempMeds, provides an exemplary overview of the...

7/17/2025 7:58:36 PM

By Daniel McGee

As reported yesterday in MJBiz Daily, the Senate has advanced legislation S. 2256 to close the so-called “hemp loophole,” which has...

7/16/2025 12:21:57 PM

By Daniel McGee

As discussed in prior posts, the efforts to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act have...

7/14/2025 8:28:50 PM

By Daniel McGee

As advised previously, Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently vetoed SB3, which had been championed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Governor Abbott...

7/2/2025 7:41:38 PM

By Daniel McGee

As reported in the Citizen Times, North Carolina's nicotine vaping product registry became fully active on July 1, 2025. Effective...