Pharmacy Podcast Network

Pharmacy Podcast Network

Pharmacy Podcast Network (PPN) is the world’s largest network of podcasts dedicated to the pharmacy professional and industry insiders. Our content is about dynamic people in the pharmacy industry making a difference and delivering the best pharmacy care. We have over 40+ podcasts with thousands of interviews.  Pharmacists are the cornerstone of healthcare, and the PPN reflects that. From Community, LTC, Specialty Pharmacy to Drug Development, Government policy and DigitalHealth, we cover it all. Partner with us to connect with thousands of daily listeners and find the right pharmacist across various specialties and topics, ensuring your products and services resonate where it matters most. We build strong audio brands through Pharmacists who see patients almost 9x more than primary care. Join the home of the O.G. Pharmacy Podcast & discover our newest development: Evidence-based Podcasting, the first CME supplement in podcast form that's truly peer-reviewed. The future of podcasting education for Providers is "Evidence-based Podcasting" (TM) and we're building a peer-review board, reach out to us: Publisher @ Pharmacy Podcast dot com.  PPN is a division of RxPR, LLC. Copyright 2026 

  1. Transparency, Auditing, and the PBM Shell Game | PBM Reform Podcast

    1 day ago

    Transparency, Auditing, and the PBM Shell Game | PBM Reform Podcast

    In this episode of the PBM Reform Podcast, host Greg Reybold, Vice President and General Counsel at APCI, welcomes Josh Golden, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Judi Health and a nationally recognized voice in Pharmacy Benefit Manager reform. With more than 20 years of healthcare consulting experience, Golden brings deep expertise in vendor procurement, contract negotiation, plan design, and benefit strategy for large employers, government entities, and unions. Together, Reybold and Golden examine the financial models behind today’s PBM industry and why true transparency remains so difficult for employers, plan sponsors, patients, and pharmacies. The conversation explores how current PBM arrangements often benefit the PBMs more than the employers paying for coverage or the patients relying on their prescription benefits. Golden explains why auditing PBM contracts, rebate structures, spread pricing, administrative fees, pharmacy networks, and formulary decisions is essential to understanding the real economics of prescription drug benefits. This episode also addresses a growing concern in healthcare: PBM steering behavior. Are patients being quietly pushed toward specific formularies, specific pharmacies, and restricted networks that operate like closed networks without being clearly disclosed? Reybold and Golden discuss how this behavior can limit patient choice, disadvantage independent pharmacies, and distort the stated goal of lowering drug costs. The discussion also tackles the role of federal reform efforts, including whether the Appropriations Act represents meaningful PBM accountability or whether it risks becoming another layer in the broader shell game surrounding PBM reform. Finally, the episode asks one of the most important questions in pharmacy policy today: should PBMs own pharmacies? If vertical integration is promoted as a way to lower drug costs, where is the proof — and who actually benefits? Transparency, Auditing, and the PBM Shell Game | PBM Reform

    48 min
  2. 4 days ago

    Health Security, Specialty Care & the OTC Products Patients Trust | TWIRx

    On this episode of This Week in Pharmacy, we examine three major forces shaping healthcare today: the global impact of conflict on health security, the continued evolution of personalized specialty pharmacy care, and the over-the-counter products patients rely on most.   We open the show with Aman Gupta, Managing Partner, Asia-Pacific at SPAG FINN Partners, and contributor author at MedikaLife. Aman joins TWIRx to discuss his latest MedikaLife article, which argues that global conflict is quietly undermining health security by redirecting funding, attention, and infrastructure away from healthcare and toward defense priorities.   As military spending rises, health systems—especially in low- and middle-income countries—face growing pressure from shrinking access, rising costs, workforce shortages, disrupted supply chains, weakened disease surveillance, and reduced emergency preparedness. Conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan demonstrate how attacks on healthcare systems, displacement, malnutrition, and shortages of essential medicines can rapidly turn health access into a survival issue. Aman urges policymakers to treat health as strategic security infrastructure, not as a secondary social expense.   TWIRx also gives a special shout out to the Indian Pharmaceutical Association, recognizing its continued leadership and advocacy for the pharmacy profession.   Next, we welcome Dr. Chris Antypas, PharmD, with Perigon Pharmacy 360, for a discussion on how specialty pharmacy is becoming increasingly personalized. As complex therapies continue to advance, pharmacists are playing a critical role in ensuring medications and treatment plans are customized to optimize patient care. We explore how technology, workflow processes, clinical expertise, and pharmacists who deeply understand specific disease states are essential to successful specialty pharmacy outcomes.   To wrap up the episode, returning guest Shanley Chien Pierce, Senior Editor, Health at U.S. News & World Report, joins us to review the latest OTC medicine and health product evaluations. Top-rated products include Children’s Delsym for coughs, Unisom for sleep, and Pedialyte for electrolytes, along with skincare favorites such as La Roche-Posay for retinol and Aquaphor for lip balm.   For the full list covering more than 128 categories, visit the U.S. News Best OTC Medicine & Health Products rankings.   Sponsored by Perigon Pharmacy 360 Listen & Subscribe Stay connected with This Week in Pharmacy and the Pharmacy Podcast Network for conversations with pharmacy leaders, healthcare innovators, policy experts, and industry voices shaping the future of care.

    1hr 11min

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Pharmacy Podcast Network (PPN) is the world’s largest network of podcasts dedicated to the pharmacy professional and industry insiders. Our content is about dynamic people in the pharmacy industry making a difference and delivering the best pharmacy care. We have over 40+ podcasts with thousands of interviews.  Pharmacists are the cornerstone of healthcare, and the PPN reflects that. From Community, LTC, Specialty Pharmacy to Drug Development, Government policy and DigitalHealth, we cover it all. Partner with us to connect with thousands of daily listeners and find the right pharmacist across various specialties and topics, ensuring your products and services resonate where it matters most. We build strong audio brands through Pharmacists who see patients almost 9x more than primary care. Join the home of the O.G. Pharmacy Podcast & discover our newest development: Evidence-based Podcasting, the first CME supplement in podcast form that's truly peer-reviewed. The future of podcasting education for Providers is "Evidence-based Podcasting" (TM) and we're building a peer-review board, reach out to us: Publisher @ Pharmacy Podcast dot com.  PPN is a division of RxPR, LLC. Copyright 2026 

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