It’s Not Just Big Pharma: Meet the Middlemen Blocking Access to Medication
Pharmacy benefit managers have massive control over people’s medications, but a growing movement is pushing for reform. Truthout...
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PBM executives threatened with fines and jail time for alleged perjury in House hearing
Testimony from the heads of Express Scripts, Optum Rx and Caremark in July defending pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices could...
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Higher Drug Costs, Less Choice: How PBMs Affect Everyday Americans’ Healthcare
Forbes The nation’s attention remains fixed on pharmacy benefit managers. Following a series of House Oversight Committee meetings on...
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States Keep Legal Pressure on PBMs Ahead of Potential FTC Suit
State AGs are forging ahead with price-fixing lawsuits FTC appears poised to file its own lawsuit against PBMs Bloomberg Law States are...
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Drug middlemen say Pharma sets prices. Then why do middlemen have hundreds for the same drug?
Ohio Capital Journal Pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers deny claims that they’re responsible for the inflating cost of...
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NCPA Leads Retail Pharmacy in a Class Action Suit Against Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, and Optum for Data Breach and Losses
Plaintiffs say defendants failed to secure its network failed to provide adequate guidance, and cost them money NCPA Newsroom The...
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Do pharmacy benefit managers play a role in pharmacy closures?
Ziks Pharmacy seeing numerous customers rushing to them for care. Dayton Daily News As pharmacies continue to shutter across the nation...
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Feds poised to sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high drug costs
The FTC action would target often high costs by trying to curb rebates it says drug makers pay to steer patients to their brand name...
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Pharmacy benefit managers profit at expense of patients and small pharmacies, FTC says
Pharmacy benefit managers may raise the prices of prescription drugs at the pharmacy counter, the Federal Trade Commission found. CNN...
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Maryland could cap prices for Ozempic and other diabetes drugs
A state board picked those products and two others for reviews that could lead to "upper payment limits." ALM Benefits Pro The Maryland...
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Pa. legislators passed a law to regulate pharmacy middlemen. But the state doesn’t enforce it.
Pharmacy benefit managers often conduct ‘fraud, waste and abuse investigations’ that find clerical errors Pennsylvania Capital Star In...
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3Axis Report Scrutinizes PBM Spread Pricing Practice
The 3Axis Advisors analysis suggests PBMs’ spread pricing practices leads to employers being charged different amounts for the same...
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Op-Ed: Health care middlemen don’t benefit NJ patients or pharmacists
Pharmacy benefit managers ‘use practices that create access barriers for patients and administrative challenges for pharmacists’ NJ...
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The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs
Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. The New York Times Americans...
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Independent pharmacists start ads asking Congress for relief from PBMs, ask Supreme Court to hear a case
Northern Kentucky Tribune Independent community pharmacists have begun an advertising campaign to get Congress to rein in pharmacy...
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Miyares joins cohort pressing for U.S. Supreme Court to review pharmacy benefit manager case
Virginia Mercury Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants states to have more authority to regulate pharmacy benefit managers....
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PHARMACIES: PBMs are killing independent owners
Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press As a local pharmacist, it was refreshing for me to see an article in The Press about the challenges facing...
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As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind
Associated Press To view AP's interactive pharmacy access map, click here Opening stores used to mean everything to pharmacy chains. CVS...
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Patients, pharmacists march against PBM business model
Patients, pharmacists and their advocates marched at Express Scripts Headquarters in north St. Louis County Friday in opposition to the...
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Congress needs to stop pharmacy benefit managers from wrongly impeding access to drugs
Cleveland.com When I was 40 years old, I received a medical diagnosis we all fear: cancer. In the prime of my life, doctors confirmed...
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