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1. Access to Rural Pharmacy Services in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Date: Jul 2001

Describes the status of rural retail pharmacies in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Discusses pharmacy organizational characteristics, staffing, services provided, financial status, and planned future changes. Also examines the availability of pharmacy services in rural areas of these states, including changes over a three year period in the distribution of pharmacies. Briefly analyzes regulatory and policy issues that affect the delivery of pharmacy services in rural areas.

...pharmacies in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Discusses pharmacy organizational characteristics, staffing, services provided...

2. Update on Rural Independently Owned Pharmacy Closures in the United States, 2003-2021
Date: Aug 2022

Provides updated information on independently owned rural pharmacy closures from 2003 to 2021. Compares the annual retail pharmacy counts and percent change in the number of pharmacies by pharmacy type and metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore county status. Builds on past publications from RUPRI regarding rural pharmacy closures.

...pharmacy counts and percent change in the number of pharmacies by pharmacy type and metropolitan...

3. Review of the Relationship between Medicare Part D Payments to Local, Community Pharmacies and the Pharmacies' Drug Acquisition Costs
Date: Jan 2008

Analyzes the relationship between Medicare Part D payments, excluding dispensing fees, to local, community pharmacies and the pharmacies' drug acquisition costs. Estimate Part D dispensing fees and compares them with Medicaid dispensing fees. Includes some data specific to rural pharmacies.

...Pharmacies and the Pharmacies' Drug Acquisition Costs --- Analyzes the relationship between Medicare Part D payments...

4. Locations and Characteristics of Pharmacy Deserts in the United States: A Geospatial Study
Date: Apr 2024

Classifies census tracts as pharmacy deserts or non-pharmacy deserts. Compares pharmacy desert and non-pharmacy desert areas by various social determinants of health and pharmacy characteristics including rurality. See the supplemental materials for state-by-state and rural/urban comparisons.

...pharmacy deserts or non-pharmacy deserts. Compares pharmacy desert and non-pharmacy desert areas by various...

5. Rural and Urban Pharmacy Presence – Pharmacy Deserts
Date: Aug 2022

Uses data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs to explore the number of counties with no pharmacy presence between January - June 2022. Compares pharmacy absence and the characteristics of counties with no retail pharmacy across noncore, micropolitan, and metropolitan counties.

...pharmacy across noncore, micropolitan, and metropolitan counties. --- View more Rural and Urban Pharmacy Presence – Pharmacy...

6. Issues Confronting Rural Pharmacies after a Decade of Medicare Part D
Date: Apr 2017

Discusses the major challenges facing rural independent pharmacies, focusing on delayed maximum allowable cost (MAC) adjustments, and direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees. Other challenges include competition from mail order pharmacies, being a non-preferred pharmacy, and orderly succession planning. Also examines the implications for rural communities when independent pharmacies close.

...pharmacies, being a non-preferred pharmacy, and orderly succession planning. Also examines the implications for rural...

7. Community Pharmacies in Wisconsin
Date: Apr 2020

Map showing actively-licensed, community pharmacies in Wisconsin counties. Includes locations for chain pharmacies, independent pharmacies, and clinic/outpatient/HMO pharmacies based on data from October 2019.

...pharmacies in Wisconsin counties. Includes locations for chain pharmacies, independent pharmacies, and clinic/outpatient/HMO pharmacies based...

8. Case Study: Pharmacy Provides Critical Link in Rural Care Continuum
Reviewed: Jan 2024

Follows the transition of pharmacy services in Pender, Nebraska, to highlight the importance of pharmacy services in rural communities. Focuses on how Pender Community Hospital District Inc. partnered with Pender Care Centre District Inc. to purchase a local retail pharmacy, expand pharmacy access, increase revenue, and qualify for the 340B Program.

...Pharmacy Provides Critical Link in Rural Care Continuum --- Follows the transition of pharmacy services in Pender...

9. Disadvantaged Groups Have Greater Spatial Access to Pharmacies in New York State
Date: Apr 2024

Examines spatial pharmacy access in low-income and racial minority communities across New York State. Utilizes population weighted mean shortest road network distance (PWMSD) to examine distance to closest pharmacy. Includes Census Tract-level maps showing demographics such as poverty, education level, Black, and Hispanic/Latino quartile percentages and the correlation to pharmacy access. Includes discussion about how rurality factors into pharmacy access for disadvantaged groups.

...Pharmacies in New York State --- Examines spatial pharmacy access in low-income and racial minority...

10. Mapping Pharmacy Deserts and Determining Accessibility to Community Pharmacy Services for Elderly Enrolled in a State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program
Date: Jun 2018

Identifies pharmacy deserts, and examines the availability and accessibility of community pharmacies, and their services provided to the elderly receiving assistance from the State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program (SPAP) in rural and urban Pennsylvania.

...Pharmacy Deserts and Determining Accessibility to Community Pharmacy Services for Elderly Enrolled in a State...