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The retailer is now accepting NovoCare savings programs for Wegovy and Ozempic, offering introductory discounts and adding access to oral Wegovy.

Community pharmacies are being squeezed out of local markets, creating pharmacy deserts that raise costs, reduce access, and strain the healthcare system.

These hubs can streamline access, reduce friction across reimbursement and logistics, and improve outcomes, as the CGT pipeline expands and patient demand accelerates.

A four-pillar strategy to help ensure both, as copay programs face mounting payer pressure and misuse in 2026.

Policy shifts bring meaningful improvements for some—but looming coverage losses and rising premiums threaten to erase those gains.

By unifying data, workflows, and decision-making across partners, AI orchestration is enabling healthcare supply chains to move from reactive firefighting to proactive resilience—supporting faster responses, smarter tradeoffs, and more reliable patient care delivery.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, a new national survey exposes the depth of America’s prescription access crisis, while AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly commit billions of dollars to next-generation weight-loss therapies and domestic manufacturing.

In this Q&A, Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation, discusses rising insurance costs, widening affordability gaps, and growing pressure on the healthcare safety net.

This guide breaks down how AFPs function and why they are fundamentally changing the path between patients and their therapies.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, the AAP defies federal vaccine cuts, Morris & Dickson scales its specialty footprint, and Insilico Medicine targets cardiometabolic health with a new partnership.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, extreme weather tests the resilience of community pharmacies, while CMS proposes a near-flat 0.09% update for Medicare Advantage and Part D payments in 2027.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, global pharmaceutical production hits a surge as manufacturers brace for US tariff shifts, while a new study reveals how smart speakers are slashing A1C levels for older adults.

How direct-to-patient programming can transform the prescription journey for patients and manufacturers alike.

In the second part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Hari Kiran Chereddi, CEO of HRV Pharma, describes how AI-driven orchestration, real-time data integration, and federated learning are reshaping pharmaceutical supply chains for faster, safer, and more agile operations.

In the final part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation, explains how understanding premiums, coverage trade-offs, and HSAs remains a major challenge for patients—and for policymakers designing new plans.

In the fourth part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation, outlines the financial pressures that make sustained safety net protections a healthcare imperative.

The platform is helping to improve absorption, consistency, and scalable care delivery.

In the second part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation, describes how rising healthcare and living costs are expanding financial hardship beyond traditional eligibility thresholds, while safety-net resources shrink and demand accelerates.

In the first part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation, explains how mounting financial pressure is forcing patients to ration care, undermining treatment adherence and accelerating downstream clinical and economic risk.

Novo Nordisk’s newly approved oral semaglutide is now available nationwide through Amazon Pharmacy with insurance and cash-pay options.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, healthcare leaders brace for a surge in dealmaking, Eli Lilly secures a suite of oral NLRP3 inhibitors, and Knipper Health rebrands to streamline the path from order to therapy.

Backed by Frazier Healthcare Partners and strengthened by the acquisition of eBlu Solutions, CareTria aims to accelerate patient access by combining provider technology, digital enrollment, and multi-modal fulfillment into a single end-to-end platform.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, federal officials slash the childhood immunization schedule, new data underscores the life-saving impact of COVID vaccines for COPD patients, and Eli Lilly targets the AMPK pathway in a massive new oral obesity collaboration.

The healthcare pricing platform is expanding access to Novo Nordisk’s newly approved oral GLP-1 for weight management, pairing transparent cash pricing with telehealth support nationwide.

In today’s Pharma Pulse, the Senate advances legislation to block "biotechnology companies of concern," clinical research ties COVID-19 to REM-dominant sleep apnea, and a new analysis reveals an affordability breaking point for employer-sponsored health insurance.