ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2025
Medicare Part D Preferred Pharmacy Networks And The Risk For Pharmacy Closure, 2014-23.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Essential Retail Pharmacies Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- Pharmacy benefit manager policy and pharmacy stakeholder perceptions of financial pressures and closures.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Community Pharmacies Face Critical Sustainability Challenges in the United States: Academic Pharmacy Can Help.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Medicare Part D plans incentivize the use of specific pharmacies through preferred networks. We found that independent pharmacies and pharmacies in low-income, Black, and Latinx neighborhoods were less likely to be preferred by most Part D plans than chains and pharmacies in other neighborhoods. Pharmacies that were not preferred by most plans were 70-350 percent more likely to close than other pharmacies.
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