I’ve been thinking a lot of late about where pharmacy is headed.
A lot has happened this year. Mail delivery to the home has exploded over the course of the pandemic, and I suspect that trend will continue. Amazon moved into the space with the rollout of Amazon Pharmacy. Walmart scaled up health clinics in Georgia that offer affordable pricing for a range of clinical services, including pharmacy. GoodRx went public. And venture investors backed digital pharmacy start-ups like Medly Pharmacy and Alto Pharmacy to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
Oh, and then there’s a new administration over in D.C., which will have its own agenda around how to manage our ever-growing health care spend.
To figure out what’s next for pharmacy in 2021, I talked to some of the most thoughtful folks I know in the space.
Here’s what I learned:
Regulatory changes
Could we see any movement to break-up the power of the big incumbents in the pharmacy space? Drug pricing has long been a priority of policyma…