February has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, the CDC, Nabla and symplr named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Walgreens, Cigna and Merck.

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Walgreens launched a virtual weight management program offering clinician support and GLP-1 prescriptions for self-pay patients.

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Walgreens has completed its sale to private equity firm Sycamore Partners, raising concerns that the deal could lead to widespread store closures, layoffs and reduced access to healthcare in vulnerable communities.

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Walgreens is selling itself to the private equity firm Sycamore Partners. This comes after the company has faced increased competition from online retailers like Amazon. It remains to be seen, however, if Walgreens will perform better under Sycamore Partners.

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So far, 13 pharmacies have filed to join the Pharmacy Guild, 11 of which have won their election with the National Labor Relations Board while the other two are waiting for their election date.

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The latest episode of Debunked, with MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch, talked about the many iterations of AI, NIH funding cuts, and a deal to sell Walgreens.

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Walgreens is reportedly exploring selling itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners. It might be the right decision for the company, some experts say.

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It’s been a tumultuous past couple years for retail health companies —but there are still reasons to believe in the convenient model that retail health offers, said Annie Lamont, managing partner and co-founder of Oak HC/FT.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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CVS Health overtook Walgreens as the most popular drugstore retailer, a new report found. However, there is no saying for sure if CVS will keep this lead.

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Retailers aren’t giving up on healthcare — but they are trying to be more strategic in their efforts to disrupt the space. As these companies re-strategize, experts think they need to center their efforts on building trust and fostering long-term patient engagement.

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Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at a Walgreens store in Vancouver, Washington, have filed a petition to join the Pharmacy Guild. The workers argued that they are facing heavy workloads and inadequate staffing.

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Walgreens’ financial performance is still rocky, but experts agree there is a good chance that CEO Tim Wentworth can lead the company to recovery. To make this happen, Walgreens will have to let go of its retail clinic dreams and focus more on making its core pharmacy business as strong as possible.

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During a fireside chat at AHIP 2024, Mary Langowski, executive vice president and president of U.S. healthcare at Walgreens Boots Alliance, said she sees a bright future for retail in healthcare.

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Walgreens announced that it is expanding its specialty pharmacy offerings. Experts think that this move could yield several strategic benefits, given the higher profit margins associated with specialty medications compared to traditional drugs. They also think Walgreens’ move could lead to greater competition, consolidation and innovation within the broader pharmacy industry.

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The regulatory environment and workforce shortages are plaguing the pharmacy industry, one Walgreens exec shared at the Abarca Forward conference on Tuesday.

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The Pharmacy Guild recently launched and aims to create the first national pharmacy union in the U.S. But it has a difficult road ahead going up against giants like Walgreens and CVS. Still, its organizers expect the union to be successful.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Pharmacies across the country are facing disruptions following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare — which is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. In a filing with the SEC, UnitedHealth stated that the unauthorized party that gained access to Change Healthcare’s systems was a “suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor.”

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Walgreens has agreed to pay Humana $360 million to settle a drug pricing dispute that has spanned nearly five years. The payout is roughly half of what Walgreens was originally ordered to pay when the issue was first resolved last year.

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The Walgreens Rx Savings Finder combines different third-party discount card options into one platform. It allows customers to search for a prescription, find a coupon for that prescription and text or email the coupon to themselves. They then show the coupon to a Walgreens pharmacist when they fill the prescription.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Walgreens is seeing “an enormous amount of demand” for injectable weight loss drugs, its president of U.S. healthcare said during the Reuters Total Health conference in Chicago. He declared that the healthcare industry needs to come up with a reimbursement model “that correctly compensates pharmacists and others” to administer these drugs. In his view, reimbursement hasn’t caught up with the demand.

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Walgreens pharmacy staff are staging walkouts from October 30 to November 1. One organizer said it’s because pharmacy staff are being tasked with too many responsibilities, making it difficult for them to safely fill prescriptions.

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This year’s HLTH conference brought a bevy of news announcements — from partnerships to new product features to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for 11 of the conference’s most notable announcements.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Through a new partnership with Walgreens, Pearl Health will work with primary care providers by offering its technology and data insights to help them better their care and transition to value-based payment models. Walgreens is then providing prescription fulfillment, medication adherence, immunization and diagnostic testing services.

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As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more primary care assets, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of nurse practitioners, this rise in demand is also boosting their salaries. Physicians’ starting salaries have remained relatively flat, but their average signing bonus grew.

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Now that Medicaid redeterminations have resumed, Walgreens is supporting patients by educating them about renewals and helping them navigate through the process, execs said at AHIP 2023 in Portland.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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