Snell's Pharmacy

05/12/2025

They have said the words. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard them uttered. Maybe there is hope yet.

04/15/2025

Please copy and paste sign and send. Before it’s too late.

Dear President Trump,

On behalf of independent pharmacy owners all over this great country, I am asking you to please look into the problem of Pharmacy Buying Managers or PBM’s. Basically they are an insidious price-fixing middleman that extracts exorbitant fees from the independent pharmacy owners without adding any value for the patient. PBMs have financial incentives that contribute to growth in drug prices, higher patient out-of-pocket costs, and the closing of independent pharmacies in rural, suburban and low-income neighborhoods.

These incentives are rooted in the vertical and horizontal consolidation that the PBM sector has undergone in recent years. For example, a PBM can charge insurers a higher amount for a given drug than what the PBM actually reimburses the pharmacy — a practice known as “spread pricing.” PBMs also commonly steer patients to the pharmacies it owns and under-reimburse smaller, independent pharmacies.

The 3 largest PBM’s are CVS Health, owned by CVS (with a 21.3% market share), followed by OptumRx owned by United Health Group(20.8%) and Express Scripts owned by Signa Health (17.1%). Their goals greatly conflict with the practice of independent pharmacy and cost patients Billions of Dollars!

Mr. President, just as you are doing with other areas of government, we implore you to take a closer look at this insidious, Price-Fixing Middleman Industry known as PBM's to help Make America Healthy Again.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Regards,

Your Name, Title
pho-nenu-mber
you@email.com

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04/02/2025

Who is ?

Oh, you know, just one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers AND also a large mail order pharmacy.

Do you know why independent pharmacy owners are so fed up?

Indulge me for a second…

Let’s imagine all 19,000 or so independent pharmacies in the United States were allowed to join forces and start their own pharmacy benefit manager company, collectively.

Every independent pharmacy would be paid 20-40x as much for prescriptions dispensed at one of our 19,000 locations nationwide, but if you’d rather go to a local or mail-order or mail-order, You can do that, but those pharmacies will be reimbursed pennies on the dollar for dispensing the same prescriptions.

Patients will also be sent numerous letters and receive many phone calls steering them toward one of the 19,000 independent pharmacies vs. one of our larger competitors.

Furthermore, to sweeten the deal, we would “financially incentivize” patients to make the switch to one of our pharmacies with lesser co-pays (or $0 co-pays) for prescriptions.

Doesn’t that sound like a totally normal, rational, ethical, fair, and reasonable way to conduct business?

If the answer is NO, then you can understand exactly what today’s independent pharmacies are up against…

Because that’s the exact treatment that we have been receiving from the largest pharmacy benefit managers.

04/01/2025

Educate your selves. It’s your health and you need to know this.

The first episode of the docuseries Modern Medical Mafia is now available to stream! The team at Patient Protector, which is producing the series, expects to publish at least four episodes.

03/31/2025

Enlighten yourself. GOOD STUFF! Educate yourself about PBM’s

https://www.facebook.com/100063625177690/posts/1193296532801175/?

03/31/2025

A colleague. Cannot operate at a loss.

03/07/2025

🚨 Yellow-legged Hornet season is here 🚨
This invasive pest threatens Georgia agriculture, and we need your help to stop its spread. If you spot an embryo nest like the one pictured, please contact the Plant Protection Division team at yellow.legged.hornet@agr.georgia.gov.

More info: https://bit.ly/4klfCeO

03/03/2025

More PBM unfair practices

03/03/2025

THIS IS AWESOME! Educate yourself about PBM’s.

https://www.facebook.com/100063625177690/posts/1193296532801175/?

03/03/2025

More reasons for PBM reform, or dissolution would even be better.

03/02/2025

I got paid $0.76 for a prescription this week,in total. I joked that we’re gonna have to start just handing patients their pills in their hand because this doesn’t even pay for a bottle. Something has to change.

12/25/2023

A very Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and yours from all of us at Snell’s Pharmacy