Rayville Family Pharmacy, LLC

03/18/2026

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. I think we are being heard.

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01/30/2026

We are back. Come get your meds!

01/30/2026

We are out of power again. We will try to open if it comes back. Phone lines are also down.

01/29/2026

We are closing at 3 due to electricity being out. We will try again tomorrow.

01/27/2026

We closed for the day. No electricity. We will be there at 8 tomorrow.

01/25/2026

Rayville Family,Southern Creations and The UPS store will be closed tomorrow on Monday

01/21/2026

Due to weather concerns we are going ahead and closing Rayville Family Pharmacy, The UPS store, and Southern Creations on Saturday. Please come get your prescriptions before Saturday.