Overcoming the Hurdles of
Prior Authorization
Prior authorization remains a burden to pharmacies striving to deliver efficient patient care. Originally created by the insurance industry to provide cost-effective and best-practice healthcare services, the prior-authorization process now often impedes service due to delays in the approval process, which fuels patient noncompliance and impacts health outcomes. Read more.

Pharmacies on the Forefront of Opioid Transparency
The severity and persistence of the opioid epidemic is well documented. Statistics from the CDC for 2016 estimated that 42,000 people died of an opioid overdose in the United States; 40% of those overdose deaths were the result of prescription opioids; more than 11 million people abused prescription opioids; and only 20% of patients with opioid-misuse disorders were in treatment programs. Pharmacies must continue to aggressively deter this continued downhill spiral of misuse and abuse. Read more.