Becker's Healthcare December 3, 2024
Paige Twenter

Between 2018 and 2021, more pharmacies closed in the U.S. than opened, according to research published Dec. 3 in Health Affairs.

Historically, the number of new pharmacy openings often exceeded closures. The landscape shifted in 2018 as mergers between large pharmacy chains and pharmacy benefit managers drove strategies funneling patients into PBM-preferred pharmacy networks.

The study was authored by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the University of California Berkeley and the University of...

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