The company is selling Alliance Healthcare to AmerisourceBergen for $6.5 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction comprised of $6.3 billion in cash and 2 million shares of AmerisourceBergen common stock.
The Department of Health and Human Services has identified pharmacy chains and independent pharmacy networks that will be part of the agency's distribution of future COVID-19 vaccines.
Robert Mauch, AmerisourceBergen executive vice president and group president, assumes Healthcare Distribution Alliance board leadership from Greg Drew, who will remain a member of the executive committee.
At its first virtual ThoughtSpot annual conference, AmerisourceBergen recognized Family Pharmacy of Pottsboro, Lily’s Pharmacy of Johns Creek, and McCoy-Tygart Drug as finalists for Good Neighbor Pharmacy’s 2020 Pharmacy of the Year Award.
At its second annual conference, AmerisourceBergen Foundation nonprofit partners shared best practices on a range of topics including pandemic resilience, social justice and racial equality, and health and community improvement.
INDIANAPOLIS — Marsh Supermarkets will close all 37 of its Indiana in-store pharmacies during a three-day period beginning May 3, according to several media reports. All prescription information and inventory will be transferred to CVS Pharmacy.
Terms of the Marsh-CVS transaction were not disclosed.
Drug Store News this summer spoke to three Good Neighbor Pharmacy owners as part of its coverage of AmerisourceBergen ThoughtSpot 2016. In these exclusive interviews, independent pharmacists shared changes implemented in their pharmacy to expand patient care and increase front-end profitability, the importance of customer service and the role of the independent pharmacist in the community.
As critical as it is to celebrate the independent spirit that drives community pharmacists to excel in patient care, it is as critical to empower those independents by ensuring patient access. AmerisourceBergen is empowering its independent partners in three critical ways: by ensuring patient access through its direct relationships with manufacturers, by commanding better terms through greater economies of scale and by heralding the market power independent pharmacy can wield in reaching underserved patient populations with specialty medicines.