The Rebate Kings!
To those who are concerned, I’m a pharmacist that is giving pharmaceutical companies 2 hours at least in an 8 hour day, inputting the BIN #, group, id, and asking if they have activated the coupon first. This with my semi-high volume setting we process 20 coupons easily per day. In the end, who is it benefiting? My company, the PBM or the Drug company? These plastic cards have taken over my business. PBMs once were for small claims processing, now they are involved in 70% of all Rx’s and up to 95% of all drug coverage plans. PBM’s set the parameters for physician prescribing, the tiered co-payments, rebates, etc. In summary they control the usage of Rx drugs through incentives. They are Rebate kings. My congress, my state reps and senators, my state board, all seem defenseless against these sleazy operators. They are are running all over us with no opposition. I want to involve my local association… please send them your thoughts, by replying to this post. I would like to put in names so that they might come out and start the fight and stop accepting these time consuming headaches. Even sites like www.yourrxdiscounts.com where you can print out your coupon for drug from Abilify to Norco to Replax to Zoloft. How can someone with an Rx for Solodyn 90mg pay $650 and then someone with a plastic card get the same amount for $25? …To be continued Royd M.

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Contributing Authors…Finally
We are finally going to start something new on our blog. As president I have asked that our board members get involved in generating posts about their everyday experience in pharmacy practice. It definitely takes a lot to spill your guts, but it can make for some great stories and some good experience to apply in our own setting. We are going to allow our board members to speak their mind. We will even allow them to vent their frustrations. As this process becomes more active, I would highly recommend you ping the blog email if you are interested in contributing your own post. Most importantly, we really want to see your comments Your comments are what make a blog flow. Feel free to comment anonymously, or feel free to hold your ground on whatever it is you would like to discuss. We ask only one thing, KEEP IT CLEAN!! In the meantime, check out our first CAPA board member blog post. It comes from a very special member who has been with CAPA for a very long time. Join us as we finally enter the interactive blog sphere. Marcus

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