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It’s time to “Audit TRICARE”!! audittricare.org Taxpayers fund TRICARE and we want answers! @TomCottonAR @SenThomTillis @RepAuchincloss @RepHarshbarger @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @mcuban

PBMs desperately trying to manufacture a temporary patient-focused image the only way they know how…to buy it off the work of someone else. Proud to see other states following the lead of Arkansas and @SarahHuckabee !

PBMs paying influencers $13,000 for a single video that’s coordinated to protect the PBMs vertical integration model - aka monopoly. This year, TN is working hard to break-up pharmacy monopolies, increase competition, improve access and protect the free-market. It’s time the PBMs return their rebates to the patient, not keep them as enhanced profits. @realDonaldTrump @mcuban @TruthRX @TNPharmacists

Spread is dead. Long live the spread. @martyschladen ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/25/cvs…

If the OIG found that CVS overcharged the government by $615 million over four years, why are they recommending CVS refund $600 million? They should refund the entire amount plus interest. The IRS would never let you and me skate by without interest and penalties!

youtu.be/CsfzcitmABk?si… Are you confused about the role that PBMs play in the drug supply chain and how they interact with independent pharmacies? In this episode, @BrandiChane and @Greg_Reybold join me to clarify all of these issues.

**Johnson’s Corner Pharmacy** *Your Hometown Independent Since 1998* 456 Independence Lane Knoxville, TN 37902 (865) 555-0192 | bob@johnsonscornerpharmacy.com March 26, 2026 CVS Health Corporation Executive Leadership Team One CVS Drive Woonsocket, RI 02895 **Re: Generous Offer to Acquire Your 134 Tennessee Pharmacies – Because Fair Is Fair** Dear CVS Executive Team (and whoever still reads these letters before forwarding them to Legal), It has come to our attention—through the same industry channels that once delivered your famously compassionate “we-feel-your-pain” letters to every independent pharmacy in America—that operating 134 stores in the Volunteer State might be getting a tad… challenging. We remember those letters well. The ones that arrived right after CVS Caremark slashed our reimbursement rates to somewhere between “thank you for your service” and “please don’t make us pay the electric bill.” The ones that expressed such deep, heartfelt concern about the “current economic pressures facing independent pharmacies.” The ones that somehow always ended with a polite invitation to sell out before we, you know, went broke. We were touched. Really. So now, in the same spirit of neighborly compassion, we at Johnson’s Corner Pharmacy (one scrappy independent, zero PBMs, still somehow turning a profit) would like to return the favor. We are prepared to make a **very generous offer** to purchase all 134 of your Tennessee CVS pharmacies—lock, stock, red boxes, and those little “next window please” signs. Our valuation model is simple and transparent: we’ll pay you exactly what CVS Caremark has been reimbursing us for the past few years. You know the rate—the one that makes a grown pharmacist cry into their compounding hood. It’s only fair. After all, turnabout is pharmacy justice. Think of the benefits this acquisition will bring you: - You’ll finally be free to focus on what CVS does best—lobbying Congress, perfecting the 47-step app checkout, and reminding patients that “health is everything” while your mail-order division quietly undercuts the very stores you own. - We’ll take over the leases, the MinuteClinics, the endless corporate KPIs, and the soul-crushing drive-thru metrics. - Your shareholders won’t have to watch another earnings call where someone asks why the retail division keeps getting squeezed by… well… you. Under independent ownership, these stores could become actual community pharmacies again—places where patients are greeted by name instead of by their insurance BIN number. Revolutionary, we know. We understand if this offer surprises you. It’s not every day the little guy offers to rescue the $300-billion gorilla from the very reimbursement model the gorilla invented. But we’re optimists. And we have excellent financing (mostly from not paying DIR fees anymore). Please have your people call our people (my wife handles the phone between filling prescriptions and coaching Little League). We look forward to making this a “win-win partnership” in the exact same way your letters always described. With the warmest regards and just a hint of the sarcasm you’ve earned, **Bob Johnson** Owner, Chief Bottle-Labeler, and Proud Independent Pharmacy Owner Johnson’s Corner Pharmacy P.S. If you’d like, we can even keep the “CVS” signs up for a few months. We hear they look great on a bonfire.

“..costs are going up, both for your employers, for our state health plan, the pharmacies are flatlining…They haven’t gotten any more..barely making it..employer cost rose 30% in those three years. You know what the reimbursement amount was for those pharmacies? Negative three.”

BRAVO to the #Kansas House, Senate & DOI 👏👏 Kansans are fortunate to have a state legislature & pharmacist DOI Commissioner that understand what it truly means to put #patientsbeforeprofits! kansasreflector.com/2026/03/24/kan… @KansasPharmacy #PBMreform

Senator @kimdhammer is a true patient advocate! @TruthRX @Commpharmacy @NACDS @arkpharm

If you have a deal with the biggest PBMs you are getting ripped off A simple way to realize this is to take both your insurance and PBM contracts and out them in @claudeai and just ask the following "How am I getting ripped off and what can I do about it " If you do, please post how it responds here so everyone can learn !

TPA members, we need you to act now! Reach out to your legislators today to request their support of SB 2040/HB 1959 on Preventing PBM Ownership of Pharmacies. The bill will be voted on in Sen. Finance on Tues & House Finance Subcomm. on Wed. #AdvocacyInAction #WeAreTNPharmacy

Sighhh.. They really don’t care about the law. They just don’t. CVS Caremark just keeps doubling down and basically continues to thumb their nose at the rules, the law, you name it. newschannel5.com/news/tenn-ag-c…. @TNPharmacists @Commpharmacy

I 💯 agree 👏 👏. Thank you Sen @TomCottonAR and and Sen @SenTimKaine for putting our nation’s finest men and women first over PBMs in the Tricare pharmacy program with your introduction of the Rx Access Act today in the U.S. Senate. #PBMReform @arkpharm @AGTimGriffin

I applaud @SenTomCotton for standing up for uniformed service members, retirees, and their families by ensuring that they have access to prescription drugs at pharmacies of their choice. The Rx ACCESS Act, which Senator Cotton has co-sponsored, would require pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to reimburse pharmacies participating in the TRICARE program either the actual cost of a drug or the national average drug acquisition cost, thus shielding independent pharmacies from unfair reimbursement practices and empowering military members and their families to use the pharmacy they choose—not the one chosen for them by the PBMs. As an almost 30-year Army officer, my family and I have seen firsthand the anti-competitive ways PBMs manipulate the market and burden servicemembers. For far too long, PBMs have abused their power to the detriment of consumers and independent pharmacies to benefit themselves. We are addressing this at the state level, and I am pleased to see legislation introduced in Congress to address it nationally. tinyurl.com/mwdkk84f #arnews

This is the dumbest, most tone deaf, indefensible statement I have seen recently. We all know that hospital-owned physician practices are literally doubling or tripling the cost of going to see the doctor. A true case of “do as I say, not as I do.” @HHSGov

This Sounds Like “Stark Derangement Syndrome” Hospital systems employing physicians with mandates to self refer internally, penalizing "leakage," and owning every ancillary service. Same incentives @FAHhospitals decries yet on a monopoly scale that drives prices up prices to patients 10-40% with no quality gain. Physician owned hospitals deliver 8-15% lower Medicare costs for identical patients, equal/better quality, and real competition. 86+ groups back repeal via H.R. 4002. Time to empower physicians & patients, not enrich vertically integrated hospitals. #RepealTheBan #PhysicianLedCare

@CRCook1978 @FAHhospitals HA! #starkderangementsyndrome this is fantastic!!

There is no issue with physician-led hospitals- the issue is about the conflict of interest when physicians self-refer patients to their own hospitals. The data is clear: POHs tend to treat more commercially insured and healthier patients than full-service hospitals. In rural communities, this can leave rural hospitals with a greater financial burden, further threatening their ability to keep their doors open and keep 24/7 care available in their communities. Read more: fah.org/wp-content/upl…

The Trump Administration and @HouseGOP are focused on meaningful reforms to lower prescription drug prices and make healthcare more affordable. My PBM Kickback Prohibition Act will rein in PBMs by ending kickbacks that deceptively raise the cost of health insurance for patients, workers, and families. allen.house.gov/news/documents…

Thank you @SenTomCotton and @SenTimKaine for this work on TRICARE! Our service members deserve only the best!

🚨 @GOPoversight exposed how the three largest PBMs colluded to line their own pockets. These self-benefitting tactics have done nothing but jeopardize patient care, undermine local pharmacies, & raise prescription drug prices. Our work to hold PBMs accountable is not over.👇