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For a monthly fee, GNC Health is offering members low-cost virtual health care for urgent conditions, primary care appointments, mental health, physical therapy, and $0 prescription medications.
Joining Walgreens, CVS Health and Walmart, Amazon is the latest retail pharmacy to experiment with drone delivery of prescriptions, promising dropoff in 60 minutes or less to "narrow the golden window from diagnosis to treatment."
At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers called for additional oversight over private companies offering Medicare Advantage, in response to misleading and predatory advertising targeting seniors during open enrollment.
Last week, an earlier lawsuit was amended to include another former employee and more details over claims that Twitter (now known as X) denied severance benefits promised to employees, in violation of ERISA.
The National Community Pharmacists Association, which represents 19,400 independent pharmacies, has formed Trust LLC to investigate the use of direct and indirect remuneration fees they are being charged by PBMs.