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Clinically Speaking Newsletter:
April Issue

Issue 11: April 2025
Does Your PBM Offer Pharmacist-Led, Outcome-Driven Pharmacy Care?
  • Does your PBM demonstrate every day that they put your needs and interests first, rather than prioritizing their own volume-driven profits?
  • Do those other PBMs leverage clinically-driven, evidence-based data to make the right medication therapy decisions that ensure the best health outcomes for your members?
  • Does your PBM focus on healthcare outcomes rather than financial arbitrage that always seems to prioritize the PBM’s profits instead of your needs and interests?
    • With an estimated $863 BILLION in pharmacy spend by 2028 in the US, you need a PBM that puts you and your members’ health first.
In Case You Missed It:

 — Pharmacy Care for Pharmacies
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EmpiRx Health recently launched AllyRx, the first-ever national pharmacy care network built specifically for pharmacy and grocery retailers. AllyRx provides pharmacist-led and outcomes-driven PBM services and solutions that help pharmacy and grocery chains to measurably improve their employees’ health and well-being while reducing prescription drug costs.

EmpiRx Health worked closely with pharmacy leaders across the nation to create AllyRx, which was designed to transform pharmacy benefits care by countering the traditional PBM companies that too often work against the best interests of pharmacies. To learn more about AllyRx’s pharmacy-friendly pharmacy care, read the full press release by clicking the button below.

EmpiRx Health and Giant Eagle Partner on PBM Transformation

In a recent press release, EmpiRx Health announced that Giant Eagle, Inc., a leading regional food, fuel and pharmacy retailer, has selected EmpiRx Health as its pharmacy benefits manager. EmpiRx Health is collaborating closely with Giant Eagle’s team of expertly trained pharmacists to provide its employees with the highest quality pharmacy care while partnering to control prescription drug costs. Giant Eagle operates more than 200 pharmacies throughout Western Pennsylvania, North Central Ohio, Northern West Virginia, Maryland, and Indiana.

EmpiRx Health and Giant Eagle will also be working together to build the AllyRx pharmacy care network. Read the full press release on EmpiRx Health’s new partnership with Giant Eagle by clicking the button below.

EmpiRx Health's Clinical Savings Guarantee

EmpiRx Health’s CEO and President featured in Drug Store News Video

EmpiRx Health’s CEO, Danny Sanchez, and President, John Ridyard, are featured in a recent video produced by Drug Store News, a leading trade publication covering the retail pharmacy industry. In the video, Danny and John discuss their thoughts on the current pharmacy benefits landscape, pending PBM reform, and EmpiRx Health’s pharmacist-led PBM model.

Danny and John also use the interview as an opportunity to announce EmpiRx Health’s new national pharmacy care network called AllyRx. Watch the full interview here.

Watch Now.

Featured Case Study

Patient: 38-year-old male
​​​Diagnosis: Kidney Disease
Population Health Management Engine Identified: Patient was prescribed a high-cost therapy with lower-cost alternatives available.

• Our clinical pharmacists had a discussion with the patient’s MD to explore clinically appropriate alternatives to the high-cost medication, Velphoro, which had been prescribed to the patient.

• The alternative was safe and less costly for the patient and benefits plan.

• The patient is stable and doing well on the recommended alternative, Sulindac.

Annual Plan Savings: $5,016