Kurt Proctor, Ph.D.

Believes improved medication use through better integration of pharmacists into our healthcare system is critical to quality of care and cost containment.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

A company with 800 employees spends roughly $15,000 per employee per year on health insurance.

That is $12 million.
Wired into a single line item. Every year.

The CFO can tell you the carrier.

He cannot tell you the unit cost of a single claim.
He cannot tell you what the network actually paid the hospital.
He cannot tell you what the PBM kept on the pharmacy spread.
He cannot tell you what the broker earned on the renewal.

In any other $12 million line item on his P&L, the board would have fired him by now.

[Health Quality Innovators @HQISolutions]

The Southeast QIN-QIO has a brand-new website! Our updated site is your go-to place for information, helpful resources and an easy-to-use event calendar so you never miss what’s happening. Check it out and stay connected: https://t.co/c6RT9ReVPE

[Adam J. Fein @DrugChannels]

🚨𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐭𝐚’𝐬 340𝐁 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 340𝐁 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 🚨

Minnesota’s latest #340B data tell a striking story.

A new Drug Channels analysis by Bryce Platt finds nonprofit hospitals in the state generated $1.34B in 340B profits in 2024—nearly $1B more than they spent on uncompensated care.

Even more notable: Commercial and Medicare plans funded the majority of those profits.

The big question remains unanswered: Where is the money going—and who is benefiting?

Worth a closer look
👇
https://t.co/yVidE9Nsm8

#340B #DrugPricing #HealthcarePolicy #DrugChannels

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

NCPA had the pleasure of meeting with @DrOz this afternoon!

We emphasized the importance of reasonable and relevant Part D contracts and outlined predatory PBM contracting practices.

Dr. Oz affirmed his recognition of the value of pharmacies in their local communities.
#NCPAontheHill

[Tom Oliverson, M.D. @TomOliverson]

More PBM-related casualties….we really should follow Arkansas’s lead and ban the ownership of pharmacies by PBM’s. Independent pharmacies are a lifeline in rural Texas, and they are worth defending.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.

For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.

The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.

The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.

Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.

This is how ideological takeover works.

A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.

It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.

Then it moves inward.

It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.

At that point, the civilization turns on itself.

Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.

They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.

And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.

The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.

The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

[Kurt Proctor, Ph.D. @KurtProctor]

@DickieV @TexasMBB @ZagMBB @handshakebets wishes that was the final, instead of the 74-68 actual score!

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

"Pharmacists. We fill more than prescriptions; we fill health care gaps," NCPA CEO @RPhDouglas told @DrugStoreNews as part of its #FillHealthCareGaps campaign. You can participate in this initiative, too. Here's how:

⚪ Share a story or example of how your pharmacy is making a difference in your community.
⚪ Post it on social media.
⚪ Use #FillHealthCareGaps.
⚪ Tag Drug Store News.

Learn more: https://t.co/P7rXPTffjU

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

👫 To your local independent pharmacy, you're a neighbor — not a number.

NCPA members, we’re excited to share the final commercial from our recently launched advertising campaign, Neighbors, Not Numbers. Since the rollout, we’ve seen increased usage of NCPA’s pharmacy locator, driven by national TV advertising reaching people within a three-mile radius of independent pharmacies.

📣 Don’t forget to take advantage of this member benefit and customize ads for your pharmacy.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/sFMT2FiRlZ
Not a member yet? Join today to access this exclusive benefit: https://t.co/j6p32zow5e

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Nonprofit hospitals receive $275 billion a year in structural subsidies.

They spend 2.3% on charity care.
That’s a 43x return on the word “nonprofit.”
Private equity wishes it had margins like that.

[Lauren Gellatly @lauren_gellatly]

Want to take back community power? Move your Rx to an independent pharmacy.

I was shocked how much better the service is when I moved from [chain] to my local pharmacy. The workers are HAPPY! My money stays in the COMMUNITY!

No brainer. One phone call. Ownership matters.

[Kurt Proctor, Ph.D. @KurtProctor]

https://t.co/sskN26T2kG

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

🎬 Ditch the mail order, there's a better experience waiting for you at a local community pharmacy — your pharmacy!

NCPA members, we're excited to showcase another commercial from our newly launched multi-million-dollar, multi-year advertising campaign. We’ll use digital media advertising to reach people within a three-mile radius of your pharmacy and drive them to your store through NCPA’s pharmacy locator.

Also, take advantage of this membership benefit to get customized ads for your pharmacy!

🔗 Learn more about this member benefit: https://t.co/Jj8GcnC5HD
P.S. Not a member yet? Join today to access this exclusive benefit: https://t.co/j6p32zow5e

[NCPA @Commpharmacy]

Americans who are fed up with big chains and mail-order pharmacies should know there’s personalized, friendly service waiting for them at a nearby independent community pharmacy — and today, NCPA is launching a multi-million-dollar, multi-year advertising campaign to highlight just that! “We want Americans to rediscover their local, family-owned pharmacy, where they will get a much better experience and state-of-the-art health care,” says NCPA President Kristen Riddle.

In our satirical commercials like “What I Love About Chain Pharmacies” and “What I Love About Mail Order,” customers heap ironic praise on all the wrong things before their scenarios are juxtaposed with other patients receiving care at their independently-owned community pharmacy. These ads and others will splash across national television over the next two weeks and then move to local cable, streaming TV, social media and online sites.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/m5i4LbPEvv

🔗 Read our news release: https://t.co/zYHpKCJoYj

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Every independent physician I talk to has the same problems.

1) Payer contracts they’ve never fully analyzed. They also believe they can’t negotiate as a group.

2) Overhead they can feel but can’t pinpoint.

3) They pay insurance premiums as expenses and do not deploy captives or self-funding.

4) And zero competitive intelligence about what’s happening in their own market.

Not because they’re unsophisticated.
Ok, they are and they are busy seeing patients while the hospital system across town hires consultants to do the analysis for them.

AI eliminates that gap overnight.

Upload your payer contracts.
AI reads every fee schedule, maps it against your case mix, and tells you which procedures lose money with which payers.

That analysis used to cost $250,000 from a consulting firm.

Now it costs very little.
Pull your market data.

AI tracks which physicians in your zip code are independent vs. employed, which competitors are hiring, which service lines have gaps.

The intel that corporate strategy departments generate quarterly, you can generate on demand.

Independent medicine doesn’t die from clinical inferiority. It dies from information asymmetry.

AI closes that asymmetry permanently.
This is how independents win.

[Andrew Ferguson @AFergusonFTC]

I grew up in a small town. I have visited with community pharmacists across the country over the last year. Local pharmacies are important community institutions in small towns, and they are often squeezed by PBMs. For too long, D.C. turned their back on them. That changes today.

[Andrew Ferguson @AFergusonFTC]

Community pharmacies are good for consumers and good for small towns. The Trump-Vance FTC has their back.

[Pharmacy Practice News @PharmPracNews]

Pharmacy closures = lost access to meds, care, and trust.
The NCPA pharmacy mapping tool helps communities, policymakers, and journalists identify areas in crisis.
🔗 https://t.co/esbH8JLU2G #pharmacy

[PhRMA @PhRMA]

PBMs and insurers can steer patients to the pharmacies they own at the expense of patients and the government, drawing extensive investigation by the FTC and Congress.

Stop PBMs and insurers from driving up costs: