Pine Hill Pharmacy

10/17/2025

We need your help! Please contact Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay's office at 518-455-3751 or by email BarclayW@nyassembly.gov to ask him to cosponsor Assembly Bill A5228B.

This bill would force PBMs to reimburse pharmacies a fair amount on commercial insurance claims. Pharmacies are closing left and right and this bill can save pharmacies from closing and leaving their communities without a pharmacy.

Please also thank John Lemondes For Congress for already cosponsoring our bill! lemondesj@nyassembly.gov or 518-455-5878

Thank you!

10/15/2025

Medicare Open Enrollment is here through December 7th! This is an important time of year to review your Medicare plan to start 2026 on medicare.gov.

For 2026 there is still no longer a donut hole. The maximum deductible in 2026 is $615. The maximum out of pocket is $2100 for the year on your prescriptions. This does not include premium payments.

If you'd like our staff to review your medications and plan options please do not hesitate to ask!

https://www.medicare.gov/health-drug-plans/open-enrollment

10/15/2025

Stop in and get your eye exam here instead of driving to and dealing with the outrageous lines at the DMV.

A small $10 convenience fee applies.

10/08/2025

Another small town in upstate NY is losing its pharmacy. It’s sad that PBMs are allowed to continue paying pharmacies below cost. It doesn’t make sense that busy businesses with strong community support continue to close for no fault of their own. It’d be nice if our legislators and governor finally stood up to the PBMs and passed the legislation pharmacies have been proposing for years to avoid situations like this.

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09/28/2025

Flu season had started and we are doing flu vaccines as well as COVID vaccines for anyone 18 and over.

No appointment necessary, just stop in any time between 9am and 4pm Monday through Friday.

07/30/2025

This is why PBMs should not be allowed to own pharmacies. They put retail pharmacies out of business through low reimbursements. Then market to those patients to switch to their mail order pharmacy. There’s a clear conflict of interest.

06/24/2025

Thank you to those that contacted our state representatives regarding legislation that would force commercial plans to reimburse pharmacies fairly. Unfortunately, the state government failed to act and pharmacies will continue to regularly be paid far below our cost. Pharmacies will continue to close through out NYS and many communities will lose access to a local convenient healthcare provider. Below is a great article discussing this issue.

Village Apothecary’s Neal Smoller explains how PBMs bleed small pharmacies dry—and why a stalled NY bill could be the lifeline independents need to survive.

06/13/2025

We are very close to passing some legislation to bring relief to pharmacies statewide against the abuse of PBMs reimbursing pharmacies below cost on prescription medications. This bill has already passed our Senate!

Please call or email Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay and ask him to support the Patient Access to Pharmacy Act, bill # A5882B, so your pharmacy isn't the next to close. For commercial insurance, this bill will require PBMs to reimburse pharmacies at a minimum the same amount we are paid by NYS Medicaid.

BarclayW@nyassembly.gov or 518-455-3751

Thank you!

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05/27/2025

05/23/2025

Have a safe holiday everyone!

05/14/2025

If you haven't heard already Rite Aid will be closing ALL of their 175 locations in New York State and nearly 2000 across the country. This is nothing Pine Hill Pharmacy celebrates. The same headwinds that forced Rite Aid to this decision affect our pharmacy as well. Pharmacy Benefit Managers, PBMs, like Express Scripts, that reimburse pharmacies for prescription medications for your health plan pay us below our cost on a significant number of prescriptions and essentially all brand name medications like Ozempic, Eliquis, and Lantus.

To help prevent further closures of pharmacies please contact your local representatives to let them know we need to pass NYS bill A5882/S5939. It is called the "Commercial Reimbursement Floor Bill". Thank you for your advocacy and support!

-NYS Senator Rachel May may@nysenate.gov 315-478-8745
-NYS Assembly William Barclay barclayw@nyassembly.gov 315-598-5185

Time is also running out for returns and exchanges.

04/10/2025

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