Forbes July 25, 2024
Bruce Japsen

Walmart is expanding its “autoimmune-focused” specialty pharmacy business to more than 30 locations across nine states as retailers beef up the more lucrative aspects of the prescription drug business.

The nation’s largest retailer, which has long had traditional pharmacies in its stores, Thursday said it was opening 25 new autoimmune-focused “Specialty Pharmacies of the Community” across five states.

The expansion brings the total number of autoimmune-focused specialty pharmacies to 31 across nine states from a half dozen in four states currently. Such pharmacies will be located in Alabama, Idaho, Louisiana, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin after the expansion.

Specialty pharmacies are an increasingly important player in the U.S. healthcare system given the flood of expensive drugs...

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