Pharmacy Staffing Insights

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Pharmacist Jobs 2018

A pharmacist job was just ranked as the twenty-first (21st) best paying position in the nation to have and work in for 2018 by US News in their annual "Best Paying Jobs" report. According to the 2018 rankings in their "Money" section, US News lists the pharmacy profession as having an average salary

Florida HB 351 PBMs

Florida HB 351 calling for changes to the Medicaid laws as they pertain to the regulation of Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBM) has now been referred to the Health Innovation Subcommittee for review and action. The bill as now proposed would include the creation of a brand-new section to the Pharmacy

Pharmacy Jobs

Pharmacy jobs are readily available in most geographical areas throughout the United States and new positions are opening up at a rate that hasn't been seen in over a decade. Almost every type of pharmacy job is currently being posted and recruited for across the nation. This includes both full time

Public Opinion of Pharmacists

The public's opinion of pharmacists and the profession of pharmacy as a whole comes up as a topic of discussion every year about this time as Gallup will release their annual Americans' Ratings of Honesty and Ethical Standards in Professions in mid-December. Last year, as expected, healthcare profes

Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases involving pharmacies and pharmacists are being reported and investigated at an alarming rate across the US recently. Just this past week an interesting Medicaid fraud case involving a New Jersey pharmacy was the subject of an investigation that received a great deal

Pharmacy Patient Counseling

Patient counseling by pharmacists has recently been the subject of various news reports and a topic that is being discussed by both patients and pharmacists on a national level. Being labeled as "Mandated Patient Counseling by Pharmacists", new legislation and rules have been enacted by several stat

PDMP

PDMP's are data bases that collect, store and share controlled substances prescription data for an individual specific state in the US. These PDMP databases represent yet another area where pharmacy technology is emerging quickly and leading the healthcare team to improve the monitoring of a patient