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PBMs Are Feeling a Push From States to ‘Turn the Lights on’ to Their Business Practices
Morning Consult In the endless debate over how to lower the cost of prescription medicines, Congress and the Biden administration are...
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Bipartisan Work Group Releases New Resource on Prescription Drug Costs
National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL) Maryland Delegate Bonnie Cullison (D) and Oklahoma Senator Greg McCortney (R) represent...
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Three More States Enact Reverse Auction Laws to Reduce Prescription Drug Spending
Colorado, Louisiana, and Minnesota enacted laws this session enabling reverse auctions to procure a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) for...
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Pharmacies face extra audit burdens that threaten their existence
Fortune The clock was about to strike midnight, and Scott Newman was desperately feeding pages into a scanner, trying to prevent...
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Pass Go and Collect Regulatory Scrutiny: The Biden Administration Takes Aim at Consolidation & Anti-
Given the current political dynamic within Congress, the chances of the Biden Administration enacting significant, substantive health...
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F.D.A. Aims to Give Final Approval to Pfizer Vaccine by Early Next Month
The New York Times With a new surge of coronavirus infections ripping through much of the United States, the Food and Drug Administration...
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Providers Say BCBS Can't Argue It's A Single Entity
Health care providers accusing Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations of thwarting competition by carving up the national market into...
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Seniors' health care suffers due to skyrocketing fees for prescription drugs, pharmacists say
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. U.S. pharmacies collecting millions of Medicare dollars would be offered incentives to do...
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Study: Costco offers better prices than Medicare 50% of the time
Benefits Pro Costco has a reputation for low prices, on everything from bulk frozen food to 60-inch TVs, and even its pharmacy. In many...
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Appeals Court Urged to Let North Dakota’s Laws Regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers Stand
Lexology A bipartisan group of 34 AGs, led by Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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The Biden Federal Trade Commission Signals an Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement Agenda
The National Law Review On July 1, 2021, the full complement of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners voted in an open meeting to...
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ACR co-authors amicus brief in support of North Dakota regulating PBM industry
American College of Rheumatology The Alliance for Transparent & Affordable Prescriptions (ATAP), the Community Oncology Alliance (COA),...
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Chucking insurance: Why some pharmacists are cutting out the middlemen for generic drugs
Pennsylvania Capital Star For a growing number of pharmacists, using insurance to pay for most generic drugs makes about as much sense as...
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Doctors: Decisions by PBMs make vital drugs unaffordable for many patients
The Columbus Dispatch Dr. Stephanie Ott’s eyes tell the story of Americans’ frustrating struggles to obtain essential prescription drugs....
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House bill on prescription drug affordability issues
CBS 19 News A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives is taking aim at the prescription drug affordability crisis. Representatives...
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Federal regulator’s oversight of the drug supply chain blasted — by one of the regulators
Ohio Capital Journal One of two federal agencies tasked with policing anticompetitive behavior among corporations last week said it has a...
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Antitrust concerns should extend to drug pricing, advocates say
Nevada Current Congress is beginning to take notice as corporations become increasingly dominant in one or more marketplaces. It’s...
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North Carolina bill targets pharmacy benefit managers
The Center Square The North Carolina Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to increase consumer protections in the health care...
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Sunlight Is The Cure For High Drug Prices
The Economic Standard Congress is considering legislation to rein in runaway drug prices. But any new law would be just political theater...
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States Probe Business Practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and New Mexico are among those scrutinizing PBMs The Wall Street Journal Several states are investigating...
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