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US prescription drug expenditures reached $915.2 billion in 2025, with utilization growth rather than price increases accounting for the majority of the 12.7% rise, and clinic-sector spending projected to outpace hospital spending by a factor of three in 2026.

Falling Medicaid enrollment under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is eroding the disproportionate share hospital percentages that determine 340B Drug Pricing Program eligibility at safety-net hospitals, according to a presentation at HOPA 2026.

“The pharmacist should have realized that the prescription was incorrectly written and should have communicated with the provider, who would have then understood that the titration schedule was incorrect, and all this wouldn’t have happened.”

Beyond these roles, pharmacists indicated that their value was rooted in specific skills and attributes deemed important including adaptability, flexibility, continuous learning and growing, networking within and outside of the organization, and a strong sense of responsibility for the NGO’s outcomes.

Among the 2023 ASHP Pharmacy Forecast panelists, 73% predicted that health systems will be required to validate the safety and effectiveness of AI tools, while only 37% reported that they were prepared to perform the validation.

Multiple system failures – nurse transcription error creating lethal dose, pharmacist failure to question extraordinary opioid amount, and institutional non-disclosure to grieving family – created perfect storm for maximum legal liability.