Walgreens to close 600 stores as part of Rite Aid deal
Walgreens has more than 50 stores in the Indianapolis area. Rite-Aid operates 10 stores in Indiana, but none in the Indianapolis area.
Walgreens has more than 50 stores in the Indianapolis area. Rite-Aid operates 10 stores in Indiana, but none in the Indianapolis area.
A pharmacist at a facility whose tainted drugs sparked a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people, including five people in Indiana, was cleared Wednesday of murder but was convicted of other crimes.
Three Indiana pharmacists have been reprimanded by state regulators for trying to access Prince's medical records within days of the music superstar's death last year.
Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem Inc. said it will set up its own pharmacy benefits management unit, signaling a final break with Express Scripts Holding Co. after the health insurer accused Express of overcharging it by billions of dollars.
Harry Zhang pleaded guilty to two felonies this month after charged with illegally obtaining prescriptions from Canada and Germany and reselling them in China.
Walgreens and Rite Aid have finally devised a combination of the nation's largest and third-largest drugstore chains that will get past antitrust regulators.
Under the new agreement, Walgreens will buy 2,186 stores, three distribution centers and related inventory from Rite Aid for about $5.18 billion in cash.
State law prohibits grocery stores without pharmacies from selling spirits, prompting Marsh to offer big discounts on its inventory.
Pharmacy grads used to have their pick of six-figure jobs. But competition stiffened after dozens of new schools opened, sharply increasing the supply of newly minted pharmacists.
The vice president of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy has agreed to pay a fine for participating in several votes involving a pharmacy he was buying.
Community said having Walgreens run its pharmacies will give its patients access to more pharmacy locations with expanded hours. The hospital network also was impressed by Walgreens' technology that allows patients to interact with the pharmacy digitally.
There were more pharmacy robberies in Indiana last year than California, which has a population about six times larger.
Pharmacists in Indiana will be able to limit how much cold medicine customers can buy under a measure Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Monday.
A bill to allow Indiana pharmacists to serve as gatekeepers for cold medicines that contain the common methamphetamine ingredient pseudoephedrine is on its way to Gov. Mike Pence for consideration.
Two measures aimed at to reducing methamphetamine production in Indiana are on their way to the governor's desk after receiving approval from the full House.
Indiana lawmakers passed similar, competing bills Wednesday aimed at giving pharmacists the ability to prevent methamphetamine cooks from buying pseudoephedrine.
Indiana drug offenders won't be able to buy cold medicine containing a common ingredient to make methamphetamine without a prescription under a bill passed by a Senate panel Thursday.
Walgreens is buying rival Rite Aid for about $9.41 billion in cash, creating a drugstore giant with nearly 18,000 stores around the world.
Target Corp. has agreed to sell its pharmacy and clinic businesses to the drugstore chain CVS Health Corp. for about $1.9 billion in a deal that combines the resources of two retailers seeking to polish their health care reputations.
The store closings amount to about 2 percent of the 8,232 Walgreens drugstores it runs in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.