Sentence examples for dispensing fees from inspiring English sources

The province offered to replace some of pharmacists' lost income by increasing dispensing fees and paying them for patient counselling.

The F.T.C. mostly discounted these fears but added that any reduction in dispensing fees at pharmacies could benefit consumers by lowering their costs.

Dispensing fees make up about 10 percent of the total reimbursement pharmacies receive from Medicaid, depending on the cost of the medication.

His store is one of a number of independent pharmacies in Texas that may have to lay off workers and cut services like free delivery to homebound patients because of looming lower dispensing fees.

The average dispensing fee paid to pharmacists for Medicaid prescriptions dropped from $7.13 to $1.53 in the new system, and pharmacists received $12.7 million less in dispensing fees in the first month than they would have under the previous system.

In a memo distributed to CVS pharmacies in Dallas in March, Craig Goodson, a CVS supervisor, told pharmacists that the reduced dispensing fees might "put many independent pharmacy owners in a pinch that they have never before felt".

Health insurers pay pharmacists a dispensing fee for each prescription.

Switching to managed Medicaid means pharmacy benefit managers will offer contracts to pharmacies with a lower dispensing fee that will replace the current $6.50 fee per prescription.

They charge a private dispensing fee on top of the cost of the drug, and part of that fee makes its way back to us for giving them the business".

But if a patient is insured, the hospital keeps the difference between the reduced price it paid for the drug and the higher price reimbursed by the insurer, and pays the neighborhood pharmacy a dispensing fee.

The administration also said that "pharmacy counseling is an expensive prospect," and "we fear that pharmacies would charge for basic counseling services that they should already provide as part of the dispensing fee".