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AHF Welcomes FTC Scrutiny of PBMs’ Anticompetitive Practices
Our David and Goliath battle between independent & smaller pharmacies and PBMs, particularly, with the big three: CVS Caremark, OptumRx...
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CVS adds Eliquis, other vital drugs to formulary exclusions
Modern Healthcare For eight years, Beth Joyner Waldron has counted on Eliquis to treat clots in her lungs and legs. In November 2021, she...
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The Impact of Drug Rebates on Consumer Pricing and Retail Pharmacy Operations
JDSupra The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently shined a light on how America’s drug rebate system hinders competition and...
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When It Comes to Health Insurance, What are We Paying For?
Health plans cost more and cover less. How did this happen? Un-Covered The COVID-19 bills are coming. A year and a half into the...
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Where’s Biden’s outrage over Pharmacy Benefit Managers?
Blames middlemen for high meat prices, forgets drug supply chain The Washington Times New government data reveals Americans are facing...
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Brown: 'This is the first time we are close to getting real action' to cut drug prices
U.S. Senator Sherod Brown says he thinks the federal government will crack down on PBMs, lowering prescription drug costs as well as...
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Billions of dollars potentially at stake for consumers, taxpayers in new probe of PBM fees
The Columbus Dispatch In a surprise move, a top federal regulator promises to delve into extensive fees assessed on pharmacies by...
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House Democrats find in three-year investigation that drug prices are ‘unsustainable, unjustifiable
The Washington Post The pharmaceutical industry relies on drug-pricing practices that are “unsustainable, unjustified and unfair,”...
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The Maddeningly High Price of Prescription Drugs
Why are prescription drug prices such a consistent source of frustration among patient-consumers? The answer is far more complicated than...
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For one drug at least, biggest insurers force Medicare patients to buy the most expensive
Ohio Capitol Journal In theory, the point of managed care is to save money by negotiating with providers for lower prices. So it would...
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Ire over pharmacy middlemen fuels lobbying blitz
The effort to paint pharmacy benefit managers as villains has sparked a multimillion-dollar campaign to influence Democrats. Politico...
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Big pharma isn't the only powerful player in the prescription drug pricing fight
The Washington Post: The Early 202 Few industries have lobbied harder to shape Democrats’ massive health care, child care and climate...
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8th Circ. upholds N. Dakota rules for pharmacy benefit managers
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court has largely upheld a North Dakota law imposing various requirements on pharmacy benefit managers,...
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The last drugstore: Rural America is losing its pharmacies
Over 40 million rural Americans live in pharmacy deserts because of market consolidation The Washington Post Batson’s Drug Store seems...
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CVS sometimes forces people to use its pharmacies. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in
At issue is whether “patient steering” can be discriminatory Ohio Capital Journal It’s a practice long complained of in Ohio. CVS Health...
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Drug Price Overhaul on Tap for Medicare if Congress Doesn’t Act
Bloomberg Law Medicare’s innovation center may be the best avenue for lowering drug costs if provisions empowering government price...
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Wyden Questions Pharmacy Closures
iHeart Media: Portland News Citing the recent announcement by Bi-Mart that it’s begun closing 56 pharmacies in Oregon and the Northwest,...
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Understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Virginia has put patients at risk, former employees say
One location in Virginia Beach was fined $470,000 for serious dispensing errors. Pharmacists say its a systemic problem. Virginia Mercury...
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Lawmaker: 'Pharmacy deserts' are on the rise in New York
Spectrum News: Capital Tonight You’ve heard of food deserts? In the same poor urban and rural areas of the state, there are so-called...
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Already concerned with drug costs, large employers, family pharmacists worry about more middlemen
Are Drug Middlemen Adding Another Black Box? Ohio Capital Journal There already were deep concerns among small pharmacists about drug...
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