Health insurance is covering fewer medications, with Medicare patients facing stricter restrictions. Profit-driven negotiators are largely to blame.

and OptumRx — control 80% of the market. They decide what drugs are covered, steer patients toward their own pharmacies and pay pharmacies less than it costs to fill a prescription. That’s not ...

The company is expanding the number of retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers, which use robots to fill thousands of prescriptions for patients who take medications to manage or ...

Walgreens will be expanding its use of prescription-filling robots, CNBC reports. The pharmacy chain began using micro-fulfillment centers in 2021 before pausing the program in 2023 to focus on ...

Walgreens is aggressively expanding its use of robots to fill prescriptions in 5,000 stores through centralised micro-fulfillment centers to tackle rising costs and a shortage of pharmacy workers.