Articles Tagged: Pharmacists

State regulators have fined a Linn County pharmacy for a drug dispensing error and settled charges of gross negligence against a Jefferson County pharmacy with a warning.

A third lawsuit has been filed against Iowa’s insurance commissioner over the legality of a new state law regulating pharmacy benefit managers.

A federal judge has granted Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of parts of Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit manager reform law.

Eastern Iowa Health Center is turning to technology and new lines of service to expand access to care, improve patient outcomes and strengthen its long-term financial footing.

SafeNetRx CEO Jon Rosmann confirmed the Nebraska-Iowa partnership has been operational since July 1.

The judge’s order on Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit managers regulations, which partially halts its implementation, applies only to plaintiff businesses, their workers and health care agents.

A federal judge on Friday appeared to indicate she plans to grant a preliminary injunction against at least parts of the new law, which was designed to help small pharmacies and address prescription drug costs

A federal judge granted a 2-week pause while a lawsuit is considered over a new state law that addresses pharmacy benefit managers, rural pharmacies and prescription drug costs

The groups claim the new state law would increase businesses’ health care costs by millions of dollars, and that it violates existing federal law and businesses’ free speech

Pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — will face new restrictions designed to constrain prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

A Cedar Rapids man was convicted for diverting oxycodone from bottles at the Belle Plaine pharmacy where he worked for personal use, and replacing them with Aleve to conceal his crime.He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Health care organizations want Gov. Kim Reynolds to sign a recently-passed PBM bill into law, saying it will protect pharmacies; business groups want her to veto it, saying it will raise health care costs.

While supporters say it will help struggling rural pharmacies, opponents say it drives up costs for Iowans by tens of millions a year.

Friday is the 110th calendar day of the 2025 session of the Iowa Legislature. It is the last day that state lawmakers will receive their stipend for daily housing and meal expenses. While their work is nearing completion, here are some of the important tasks that remain.

Legislation designed to constrain prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies by regulating third-party health care companies known as pharmacy benefit managers is once again moving in the Iowa Capitol.