Patrick Kovacs (@pkovacs8997) 's Twitter Profile
Patrick Kovacs

@pkovacs8997

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calendar_today09-03-2010 19:43:25

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APCI (@_apci) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pharmacies say that leaves them with no negotiating leverage, so they’re forced to sign contracts in which the middlemen use a non-transparent system to reimburse them for the drugs they buy and dispense. ow.ly/v9hX50V2KHx

Shane Jerominski (@accpharmacist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Patients, PBMs don’t lower the cost of prescription drugs. They rob the profits of small business and you of choice. Sincerely, Every Pharmacy Professional in America

American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨NEW: At least 326 pharmacies -- 237 of them independent -- have closed since Congress tanked PBM reform last Dec at the behest of Elon Musk. Without reform, PBMs will continue to wield their market power to squeeze out pharmacies and hurt communities across the country.

🚨NEW: At least 326 pharmacies -- 237 of them independent -- have closed since Congress tanked PBM reform last Dec at the behest of Elon Musk. 

Without reform, PBMs will continue to wield their market power to squeeze out pharmacies and hurt communities across the country.
Pharmageddon 💊⚛️💪 (@sterlingkoonce) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are on the verge of a tsunami of closings nationwide if significant PBM reform is not enacted immediately. Many are hanging by a thread.

PUTT (@truthrx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PBMs ❤️ their #independentpharmacy "partners" and work hard to reduce drug prices for their #patients? #APRILFOOLS #PBMReformNOW

PBMs ❤️ their #independentpharmacy "partners" and work hard to reduce drug prices for their #patients?

#APRILFOOLS

#PBMReformNOW
Patrick Kovacs (@pkovacs8997) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I just filled 7 rxs for a long time patient. My total pay for those 7 was a whopping $6.79 for all combined. Even a dollar store makes more than that. Even if the drugs, the bottles, the lids, the labels, the electric etc was free, in what world is that fair?

The SIP for PBM Reform (@thesiprx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Everyone talks about how pharmacies are paid less than what they pay wholesalers to purchase medications. But, you hear little about how much pharmacies are actually loosing when overhead cost such as vials, labels, and computer systems, etc. are factored in. PUTT breaks it

Everyone talks about how pharmacies are paid less than what they pay wholesalers to purchase medications. But, you hear little about how much pharmacies are actually loosing when overhead cost such as vials, labels, and computer systems, etc. are factored in.  <a href="/TruthRX/">PUTT</a> breaks it
Ohio Pharmacists (@ohiopharmacists) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OPA member Patrick Kovacs testified at the Statehouse last week advocating for provisions in the budget bringing price fairness and payment transparency to pharmacy benefit managers whose monopolistic behavior is threatening his business like so many other pharmacies in the state

Concerned PharmD 🇺🇸 (@concernedpharmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A PBM-free or transparent fixed-fee healthcare model in the U.S. would conservatively save $90–130 billion per year—representing 14–20% of total prescription drug spending. These savings come not from rationing care or suppressing innovation, but from eliminating opaque

Patrick Kovacs (@pkovacs8997) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s isn’t one single independent owner that is surprised by this. Imagine what happens when they finally force all of us to close. How can anyone justify this practice?

Sally Pipes (@sallypipes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you want to know who's driving up drug costs, follow the money. Drugmakers earn 10.3% returns. Middlemen? Over 40%. Policymakers are targeting the wrong culprit. dcjournal.com/the-real-profi…

Patrick Kovacs (@pkovacs8997) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can every independent say the same exact thing in every state but the Pbms say it isn’t them? At what point is it about does anyone in our government actually help us? How much profits do they actually need? Why can’t anyone see that the real reason costs are high is the pbm?

Partnership for Safe Medicines (@safemedicines) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A newly signed federal spending package introduces major reforms to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). These changes follow findings that major PBMs generated billions through pricing practices that disadvantaged independent pharmacies. Learn more at safemedicines.org/wp-content/upl…