With drug prices on the rise, Georgia lawmakers examine role of industry players

With drug prices on the rise, Georgia lawmakers examine role of industry players

Adams Family Pharmacy, a locally owned pharmacy, has locations in Cuthbert and Preston. Maya Homan/Georgia RecorderA business rep was on the phone telling Hugh Chancey’s pharmacy in southwest Georgia to transfer all of an elderly patient’s prescriptions away to another pharmacy.  The patient herself said that’s not what she wanted, Chancey recounted, but the company was relentless. After a three-way phone call where the patient said she wanted t…

With drug prices rising, Georgia lawmakers examine role of industry players

A Georgia House study committee met in Macon to examine the impact of pharmacy benefit managers on independent pharmacies and discuss the contentious 340B hospital drug discount program. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.