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Pharmacy benefit manager reform fails to make the cut in federal funding package
“This bill does nothing to lower costs, nothing to improve pharmacy access, nothing to benefit patients,” the ...
Small pharmacies are being driven out of business: ‘We can’t afford to stay’
The rise of pharmacy benefit management companies and a dip in reimbursements, are making it impossible for independent ...
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Stripped Down Spending Bill, Backed By Trump, Does Not Pass
The new, now-defeated bill eliminated the PBM reform measures included in a larger spending bill that the president-elect and ...
Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times ...
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UnitedHealth, rival shares tumble as lawmakers push to break up drug middlemen
CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum control the majority of pharmacy benefit management (PBMs) in the US, while their parent companies also operate ...
What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone
As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do ...
Lawmakers Want To Break Up Healthcare Conglomerates, Forcing Them To Shed Pharmacies
Senators Warren and Hawley seek to force vertically integrated healthcare conglomerates to divest their businesses operating ...