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The key variables in this analysis: what percentage of your total pharmacy spend is on generic drugs (typically 85-90% of prescription volume but only 20-30% of total drug spend), what percentage of those generics are classified as specialty by your current PBM (and thus dispensed through PBM-affiliated specialty pharmacies at inflated margins), and what is the spread between your current contracted price and Cost Plus acquisition cost for those drugs

On the other hand, the actual GLP-1 microneedle patches with GLP-1 analogues like semaglutide are said to show results like reduced appetite and cravings, feelings of fullness and delayed gastric emptying 4

Importantly, the proposal does not affect the ability of 503A compounding pharmacies to prepare patient-specific formulations pursuant to valid prescriptions, provided they satisfy the conditions of Section 503A, including the requirement that such compounding not occur regularly or in inordinate amounts for drugs that are essentially copies of commercially available products