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Community Pharmacies See Upside in Personalized Patient Care
Pharmacists are taking on a bigger role in patient care, stepping up efforts to improve adherence to prescription-drug regimens, as WSJ’s Informed Patient column reports.
Big chains like CVS and Walgreens, which each operate more than 7,000 retail stores, are training their pharmacists in counseling skills, reaching out more to people who don’t fill prescriptions and making it easier for customers to find pharmacists with special knowledge of their conditions. But independent community pharmacists are also becoming more proactive, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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