Wed Oct 30 00:01:39 2024
EVENTS
 FREE
SOFTWARE
INSTITUTE

POLITICS
JOBS
MEMBERS'
CORNER

MAILING
LIST

NYLXS Mailing Lists and Archives
NYLXS Members have a lot to say and share but we don't keep many secrets. Join the Hangout Mailing List and say your peice.

DATE 2019-01-01

HANGOUT

2024-10-30 | 2024-09-30 | 2024-08-30 | 2024-07-30 | 2024-06-30 | 2024-05-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2024-03-30 | 2024-02-29 | 2024-01-29 | 2023-12-29 | 2023-11-29 | 2023-10-29 | 2023-09-29 | 2023-08-29 | 2023-07-29 | 2023-06-29 | 2023-05-29 | 2023-04-29 | 2023-03-29 | 2023-02-28 | 2023-01-28 | 2022-12-28 | 2022-11-28 | 2022-10-28 | 2022-09-28 | 2022-08-28 | 2022-07-28 | 2022-06-28 | 2022-05-28 | 2022-04-28 | 2022-03-28 | 2022-02-28 | 2022-01-28 | 2021-12-28 | 2021-11-28 | 2021-10-28 | 2021-09-28 | 2021-08-28 | 2021-07-28 | 2021-06-28 | 2021-05-28 | 2021-04-28 | 2021-03-28 | 2021-02-28 | 2021-01-28 | 2020-12-28 | 2020-11-28 | 2020-10-28 | 2020-09-28 | 2020-08-28 | 2020-07-28 | 2020-06-28 | 2020-05-28 | 2020-04-28 | 2020-03-28 | 2020-02-28 | 2020-01-28 | 2019-12-28 | 2019-11-28 | 2019-10-28 | 2019-09-28 | 2019-08-28 | 2019-07-28 | 2019-06-28 | 2019-05-28 | 2019-04-28 | 2019-03-28 | 2019-02-28 | 2019-01-28 | 2018-12-28 | 2018-11-28 | 2018-10-28 | 2018-09-28 | 2018-08-28 | 2018-07-28 | 2018-06-28 | 2018-05-28 | 2018-04-28 | 2018-03-28 | 2018-02-28 | 2018-01-28 | 2017-12-28 | 2017-11-28 | 2017-10-28 | 2017-09-28 | 2017-08-28 | 2017-07-28 | 2017-06-28 | 2017-05-28 | 2017-04-28 | 2017-03-28 | 2017-02-28 | 2017-01-28 | 2016-12-28 | 2016-11-28 | 2016-10-28 | 2016-09-28 | 2016-08-28 | 2016-07-28 | 2016-06-28 | 2016-05-28 | 2016-04-28 | 2016-03-28 | 2016-02-28 | 2016-01-28 | 2015-12-28 | 2015-11-28 | 2015-10-28 | 2015-09-28 | 2015-08-28 | 2015-07-28 | 2015-06-28 | 2015-05-28 | 2015-04-28 | 2015-03-28 | 2015-02-28 | 2015-01-28 | 2014-12-28 | 2014-11-28 | 2014-10-28 | 2014-09-28 | 2014-08-28 | 2014-07-28 | 2014-06-28 | 2014-05-28 | 2014-04-28 | 2014-03-28 | 2014-02-28 | 2014-01-28 | 2013-12-28 | 2013-11-28 | 2013-10-28 | 2013-09-28 | 2013-08-28 | 2013-07-28 | 2013-06-28 | 2013-05-28 | 2013-04-28 | 2013-03-28 | 2013-02-28 | 2013-01-28 | 2012-12-28 | 2012-11-28 | 2012-10-28 | 2012-09-28 | 2012-08-28 | 2012-07-28 | 2012-06-28 | 2012-05-28 | 2012-04-28 | 2012-03-28 | 2012-02-28 | 2012-01-28 | 2011-12-28 | 2011-11-28 | 2011-10-28 | 2011-09-28 | 2011-08-28 | 2011-07-28 | 2011-06-28 | 2011-05-28 | 2011-04-28 | 2011-03-28 | 2011-02-28 | 2011-01-28 | 2010-12-28 | 2010-11-28 | 2010-10-28 | 2010-09-28 | 2010-08-28 | 2010-07-28 | 2010-06-28 | 2010-05-28 | 2010-04-28 | 2010-03-28 | 2010-02-28 | 2010-01-28 | 2009-12-28 | 2009-11-28 | 2009-10-28 | 2009-09-28 | 2009-08-28 | 2009-07-28 | 2009-06-28 | 2009-05-28 | 2009-04-28 | 2009-03-28 | 2009-02-28 | 2009-01-28 | 2008-12-28 | 2008-11-28 | 2008-10-28 | 2008-09-28 | 2008-08-28 | 2008-07-28 | 2008-06-28 | 2008-05-28 | 2008-04-28 | 2008-03-28 | 2008-02-28 | 2008-01-28 | 2007-12-28 | 2007-11-28 | 2007-10-28 | 2007-09-28 | 2007-08-28 | 2007-07-28 | 2007-06-28 | 2007-05-28 | 2007-04-28 | 2007-03-28 | 2007-02-28 | 2007-01-28 | 2006-12-28 | 2006-11-28 | 2006-10-28 | 2006-09-28 | 2006-08-28 | 2006-07-28 | 2006-06-28 | 2006-05-28 | 2006-04-28 | 2006-03-28 | 2006-02-28 | 2006-01-28 | 2005-12-28 | 2005-11-28 | 2005-10-28 | 2005-09-28 | 2005-08-28 | 2005-07-28 | 2005-06-28 | 2005-05-28 | 2005-04-28 | 2005-03-28 | 2005-02-28 | 2005-01-28 | 2004-12-28 | 2004-11-28 | 2004-10-28 | 2004-09-28 | 2004-08-28 | 2004-07-28 | 2004-06-28 | 2004-05-28 | 2004-04-28 | 2004-03-28 | 2004-02-28 | 2004-01-28 | 2003-12-28 | 2003-11-28 | 2003-10-28 | 2003-09-28 | 2003-08-28 | 2003-07-28 | 2003-06-28 | 2003-05-28 | 2003-04-28 | 2003-03-28 | 2003-02-28 | 2003-01-28 | 2002-12-28 | 2002-11-28 | 2002-10-28 | 2002-09-28 | 2002-08-28 | 2002-07-28 | 2002-06-28 | 2002-05-28 | 2002-04-28 | 2002-03-28 | 2002-02-28 | 2002-01-28 | 2001-12-28 | 2001-11-28 | 2001-10-28 | 2001-09-28 | 2001-08-28 | 2001-07-28 | 2001-06-28 | 2001-05-28 | 2001-04-28 | 2001-03-28 | 2001-02-28 | 2001-01-28 | 2000-12-28 | 2000-11-28 | 2000-10-28 | 2000-09-28 | 2000-08-28 | 2000-07-28 | 2000-06-28 | 2000-05-28 | 2000-04-28 | 2000-03-28 | 2000-02-28 | 2000-01-28 | 1999-12-28

Key: Value:

Key: Value:

MESSAGE
DATE 2019-01-28
FROM Ruben Safir
SUBJECT Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the
https://www.amny.com/news/nyc-pharmacy-drug-prices-1.26548424?fbclid=IwAR3XGiLsfsZiN5c3hcvS53m9r134BXk3JBJokRhahRRG78GdyeMZelgVslE

\Local pharmacies concerned about future: 'We're on track to be bankrupt'

More than 500 pharmacies in the city say reimbursements put their
business in jeopardy.
Community pharmacists are worried they will have to

Community pharmacists are worried they will have to cut back hours or
staff, a recent survey says. Photo Credit: Corey Sipkin
By Nicole Brown
nicole.brown-at-amny.com -at-ncb417
Updated January 28, 2019 4:11 PM
Print Share

Nearly 500 neighborhood pharmacies in the city are considering cutting
hours or staff this year because of financial concerns, according to a
recent survey.

Small pharmacies are being “choked” by pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs)
that control how much they get reimbursed for drugs purchased by
customers through insurance plans. Acting as a middleman between
insurers and pharmacies, PBMs charge insurers and pay the pharmacy,
rather than the insurer paying the pharmacy directly. But the price the
pharmacy gets from the PBM can be less than what it originally paid for
the drug, according to multiple pharmacists.

“The pharmacy is the only business where you actually lose money when
you give out a product,” said Keith Lewis, the supervising pharmacist
and owner of the 79th Street Pharmacy on the Upper West Side.
A customer shops at NoLita Chemists at 208 A customer shops at NoLita
Chemists at 208
A customer shops at NoLita Chemists at 208 Mott St. on Jan. 24. Photo
Credit: Corey Sipkin

According to a survey of 532 pharmacies, conducted by the New York City
Pharmacists Society in early January, 99 percent are concerned that PBM
practices will jeopardize their business in 2019, 70 percent had already
reduced store hours or laid off employees in 2018 because of the PBMs
and 92 percent were considering making cuts this year, a spokesman for
the NYC Pharmacists Society said.

“Over the last year, I’ve cut everything that I could cut,” said Nicky
Legakis, pharmacist and the owner of NoLita Chemists, which has been in
the neighborhood for about 30 years. “We’ve cut our store hours, we’ve
cut the staff and I cut my pay a long time ago … we’re on track to be
bankrupt and destroyed.”

The contracts that PBMs have with insurers are private, so pharmacists
don’t know how much the insurer pays for the drug or how much the PMBs
are pocketing.

“The number one thing we need in our industry is transparency,” said
Vincent Mazzamuto, pharmacist and co-owner of Sedgwick Pharmacy, which
has been in the north Bronx since 1978. “No one knows how these PBMs
operate.”
_______________________________________________
Hangout mailing list
Hangout-at-nylxs.com
http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout

  1. 2019-01-02 From: "IEEE Spectrum University Spotlight" <reply-at-media.ieee.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Latest in Continuing Education Programs, Degrees,
  2. 2019-01-02 From: "Free Software Foundation" <info-at-fsf.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Free Software Supporter Issue 129, January 2019
  3. 2019-01-05 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Anyone up for a trip to the Met,
  4. 2019-01-07 James E Keenan <jkeenan-at-pobox.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] First social meeting of 2019: Monday Jan 14 at
  5. 2019-01-07 James E Keenan <jkeenan-at-pobox.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] First social meeting of 2019: Monday Jan 14 at
  6. 2019-01-08 James E Keenan <jkeenan-at-pobox.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Request help getting article from IEEE
  7. 2019-01-07 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #389 - Welcome to 2019! What are
  8. 2019-01-03 From: "IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert" <reply-at-media.ieee.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame and 2018's
  9. 2019-01-03 From: "American Museum of Natural History" <learn-at-amnh.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Register for Our Spring Session 1 Courses for
  10. 2019-01-09 Ruben Safir <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: Resource Control -at- Facebook on Thursday,
  11. 2019-01-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Copyright Wars
  12. 2019-01-11 From: "Ruben.Safir" <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: New York Artificial Intelligence In
  13. 2019-01-03 From: "IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert" <reply-at-media.ieee.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Hi Ruben, what do you think?
  14. 2019-01-13 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #390 - It is time for Perl Conference
  15. 2019-01-13 James E Keenan <jkeenan-at-pobox.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Request help getting article from IEEE
  16. 2019-01-13 Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller-at-gmail.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Request help getting article from IEEE
  17. 2019-01-13 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #390 - It is time for Perl Conference
  18. 2019-01-14 From: "Pat Schloss" <pschloss-at-umich.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [mothur] Upcoming mothur workshops
  19. 2019-01-14 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: [mothur] Upcoming mothur workshops
  20. 2019-01-14 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Meeting this week
  21. 2019-01-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] 3d imagine for Paleontological specimens
  22. 2019-01-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Modperl security alert
  23. 2019-01-15 From: "Mancini, Sabin (DFS)" <Sabin.Mancini-at-dfs.ny.gov> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Meeting this week | | Why not meet Thursday
  24. 2019-01-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: RSVP to Free Blue Note Show! Plus Eddie
  25. 2019-01-17 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Meeting this week | | Why not meet Thursday
  26. 2019-01-17 From: "Mancini, Sabin (DFS)" <Sabin.Mancini-at-dfs.ny.gov> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Meeting this week | | Why not meet Thursday
  27. 2019-01-17 From: "Deutsch, Chaim" <CDeutsch-at-council.nyc.gov> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] THE DEUTSCH REPORT: News From Councilmember Chaim
  28. 2019-01-21 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Documentaries
  29. 2019-01-22 Ruben Safir <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] New York Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare
  30. 2019-01-22 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Meeting this week | | Why not meet Thursday
  31. 2019-01-18 From: "American Museum of Natural History" <fieldtrips-at-amnh.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Upcoming Professional Opportunities at the Museum
  32. 2019-01-21 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #391 - Serverless Perl
  33. 2019-01-20 James E Keenan <jkeenan-at-pobox.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Presentations requested for ny.pm technical
  34. 2019-01-22 DCAS <MyNYC-at-nyc.gov> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] REMINDER: Changes to Your OASys Account
  35. 2019-01-23 ruben <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: Two ways to Refigure the Future with Eyebeam
  36. 2019-01-22 From: "IEEE The Institute Alert" <reply-at-media.ieee.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] =?utf-8?q?U=2ES=2E_Judge_Rules_Mats_J=C3=A4rlst?=
  37. 2019-01-23 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the PBMs
  38. 2019-01-24 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the
  39. 2019-01-24 From: "SUSE" <events-at-suse.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] SUSECON: The Best Open Source Conference Value in
  40. 2019-01-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the
  41. 2019-01-24 Healthcare Update News Service <admin-at-healthcareupdatenewsservice.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Health Datapalooza: Hear Directly From Health
  42. 2019-01-25 Stephan Bosch <stephan-at-rename-it.nl> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] problem in setting up proxy
  43. 2019-01-26 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the
  44. 2019-01-28 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #392 - Time to submit talk/workshop
  45. 2019-01-28 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Libre Planet in Boston
  46. 2019-01-28 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the
  47. 2019-01-29 mrbrklyn <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: New York University Special Invite: HireNYC
  48. 2019-01-28 From: "HireNYC 2019 Alumni Career Fair" <jesse-at-gohiretalent.net> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] New York University Special Invite: HireNYC 2019
  49. 2019-01-31 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Community Pharmacy is being destroyed by the PBMs
  50. 2019-01-31 From: "IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert" <reply-at-media.ieee.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] 3D Printing: New Technique Turns Out Objects 100
  51. 2019-01-31 From: "American Museum of Natural History" <learn-at-amnh.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Take a Peek at Our Next Session's Courses!

NYLXS are Do'ers and the first step of Doing is Joining! Join NYLXS and make a difference in your community today!