Clinic Pharmacy of Mangham

03/18/2026

Committee meeting about Echols house bill 919 is tomorrow at 9am. You can watch on Legis.la.gov. If you have never watched how a bill gets passed, it’s very interesting.

03/17/2026

🚨 Louisiana Patients: Here’s What You Need to Know About House Bill 919

You may hear claims this week from BILLION-dollar PBMs and insurance companies that House Bill 919 will raise prescription costs. This is not true if this bill is followed through as written.

HB919 simply says pharmacies should be paid at least what it costs to fill a prescription.

Right now, PBMs often reimburse pharmacies LESS than the cost of the medication and the work required to safely dispense it.

That means local pharmacies are sometimes losing money just by filling prescriptions.

HB919 would require PBMs to pay at least:
• The national average drug cost (NADAC)
• PLUS a professional dispensing fee
• With a $12 minimum

For comparison: Louisiana Medicaid already pays $11.81 per prescription based on a survey of cost to dispense throughout the state.

The bill also clearly states that PBMs CANNOT pass these costs on to patients or insurance plans.

In other states with similar reforms, insurance rates were actually REDUCED after improving prescription drug transparency.

This bill is about FAIRNESS and protecting patient access to local pharmacies.

Because when community pharmacies disappear, patients lose:
• personal care
• medication access
• local healthcare support

HB919 will be heard Wednesday at 9:00 AM.

If you believe patients deserve affordable prescriptions AND local pharmacies, now is the time to speak up. Please see the attached list of committee members who will be hearing this issue Wednesday morning and let them know to SUPPORT and VOTE FAVORABLY for HB919.

💙 Your local pharmacies are fighting to stay open and continue serving Louisiana communities.

03/02/2026

03/02/2026

For my friends with Louisiana Blue Insurance:

You may get a letter saying your copay or premium is increasing because of a new pharmacy law. They may imply local pharmacies caused it. That is false.

For years, PBMs (the insurance middlemen) have paid independent pharmacies LESS than what medications cost us to buy and fill — while paying their own mail-order pharmacies more. Many prescriptions were filled at a loss.

The new law simply says local pharmacies must be reimbursed at least the average cost of the drug plus a small dispensing fee. Not a bonus. Not a raise. Just not losing money.

Insurance companies don’t have to raise your costs because of this — they can adjust their own margins instead of blaming local pharmacies and steering patients to their own mail order pharmacies. Premiums have been rising long before this law.

We’re not asking for more profit. We’re asking to be paid fairly so we can stay open and continue caring for our community.

02/05/2026

Thank you Rep. Michael Echols.

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01/25/2026

Clinic pharmacy will be closed tomorrow (Monday). Stay safe

01/23/2026

Just a reminder. Just to be safe Check your medications and make sure you have enough to get through the early part of next week. We are here at the pharmacy until 5 today. Call us if you need us to help you out 😊 Clinic Pharmacy of Mangham

07/11/2025

06/12/2025

CVS Pharmacy’s mass text message yesterday is the exact reason we need HB 358 to pass.

Abusing patient’s sensitive information to push a political message is completely unethical and manipulative and we will not stand for it.

I’m calling on Office of the Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill to investigate this matter immediately.

06/12/2025

Consider this scenario: A pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) that also owns or operates a pharmacy—an entity that already profits immensely from the medications we rely on—has access to the private health data and personal cell phone numbers of every patient it services in Louisiana.

That sensitive information is entrusted to them solely for the purpose of processing prescriptions and managing patient care. But when legislation is proposed to bring transparency or reform to their business practices—practices that directly impact patient costs and access—this PBM turns around and uses that private information to lobby for their own protection.

They weaponize patient trust, sending messages designed to scare, confuse, and manipulate the very people they are supposed to serve.

This isn’t just unethical—it may well be criminal. It’s a blatant abuse of protected health information for corporate lobbying purposes. It’s one of the most egregious violations of patient privacy and public trust I’ve seen. Louisiana patients deserve better.

06/12/2025

🚨Breaking News: HB358 just PASSED the Louisiana House in a powerful 88-4 vote!

This bill takes a bold step to stop pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from owning pharmacies they steer patients to—a practice that limits choice, underpays pharmacists and drives up costs for all of us.

✅ Now it’s the Senate’s turn to act. HB358 will be read TOMORROW!

📣 Help us keep up the momentum:
👉 Sign the petition at RxReformNowLA.com
📞 Call your Senator and urge them to vote YES for pharmacy fairness.

06/10/2025

🚨 BIG NEWS: Louisiana Legislators Stand Up for Patients!

The Louisiana House has passed State Rep. Dustin Miller's Resolution 329, calling on the state AG and Department of Insurance to investigate PBMs for potential violations of law — and urging the Legislature to ban PBMs from owning or controlling pharmacies in Louisiana.

💊 Why it matters: PBMs are corporate middlemen who use anti-competitive tactics and self-dealing to inflate drug prices and crush locally operated pharmacies. When PBMs own the pharmacies they favor, it’s patients who pay the price.

🖊️ Sign the petition at RxReformNowLA.com to demand real PBM reform! Together, we can protect access to life-saving medications and local pharmacy care.