Alan G. Rosenbloom

If there’s one thing most Americans still agree on, it’s that the ever-increasing cost of healthcare is simply unsustainable. And while there is plenty of blame to go around, one must look at who benefits...

With economic stress mounting on long-term care (LTC) pharmacies, uninterrupted access to prescription drugs for nursing home and assisted living patients is under threat. The average nursing home resident...

To better ensure consumers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have access to drug pricing information relevant to seniors residing in long term care facilities, we believe the Senate...

Policymakers should ensure that any approach to restructure manufacturer rebates shares savings with pharmacies and prevents insurers, PBMs or manufacturers from shifting their losses downstream.

out-of-control prescription drug pricing is most certainly hurting American seniors and the LTC pharmacies committed to ensuring access to medications and consulting services for Medicare beneficiaries...

Over just the past few years, the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – have come to control more than 80% of prescriptions...

Among a variety of key responsibilities, LTC pharmacies are accountable for compliance with increasingly complex medication and care management regimes.

With $9 billion in Budget Relief Act sequester cuts to the U.S. skilled nursing facility (SNF) sector now just weeks away following the latest cut of at least $600 million in Medicare Part B therapy payments...

Despite the customary complaints about negativity and the avalanche of TV ads, the 2012 campaign was unusually substantive from the standpoint of the entitlement reform discussion because both sides were...

Last week, three reports issued by three separate government agencies made incongruent recommendations — or no recommendations at all — related to skilled nursing facility (SNF) patient care and policy....