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An Overland Park pharmacist quit the drug insurance game. He says it could save you money

Pharmacist Nick Romo inside his Overland Park pharmacy, Pharmington Drugs. He's leaving pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, behind with a cost-plus model.

Nick Romo spent a decade as a pharmacist under the rule of insurance companies and their middlemen. Too often, customers couldn’t get the drugs their doctors prescribed or ran into prices so high they walked away empty-handed. So two years ago, he opened Pharmington Drugs in south Overland Park in rebellion against it all. “I […]

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One child overdosed and another cut his own neck at a Kansas foster office. What that says about the system

A photo of the KVC Kansas office.

Paramedics had to rush a Kansas foster teen to the hospital because the 15-year-old girl was overdosing on muscle relaxants at a foster care contractor’s office.  One month later, paramedics rushed back to that same Topeka office because a different foster child found glass and cut himself.  “Child on (scene) cut up his arms and […]

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