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Simmering tensions in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry have turned into fault lines. The PBMs challenging the "big three"...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2024 Community Pharmacists Call Attention to Increasing Prescription Drug Costs, Decreased Access to Care and Emerging Pharmacy Deserts Correlated to Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practices  SPRINGFIELD, IL (March 5, 2024) – Illinois pharmacists will gather at the State Capitol today to rally in support of HB 4548  and SB 2790 , proposed legislation which would eliminate controversial practices by prescription drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit

Axios Pro Only a handful of health care provisions that mostly extend existing programs are likely to catch a ride on the next government...

Augusta Free Press A bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general is encouraging Congress to take decisive action to reform the way...

Kentucky Lantern Four years after leading the effort to cut corporate middlemen out of the prescription drug business for Kentucky’s...

HEALTH CARE un-covered by Wendell Potter Regular readers of this newsletter know that pharmacy benefit managers have come to be an...

Modern Healthcare The pharmacy benefit manager industry could look a lot different soon if Congress follows through with bipartisan...

Modern Healthcare The federal government has dropped its appeal of a court decision that could affect health insurance companies' use of...

Becker's Payer Issues A state committee is recommending Delaware cast aside any plans to provide retired state employees health benefits...

Duane Morris Law A decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which found that several provisions of an...

Becker's Payer Issues The California Department of Managed Health fined Anthem Blue Cross of California $690,000 for failure to reimburse...

Axios Pro The House's passage of its big health care transparency bill this week shifts the focus to the Senate, which will have to work...

STAT News The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year victory after the same policies had to be...

Axios Pro The House Energy and Commerce Committee teed up a series of health bills for floor votes during a marathon markup on Wednesday...

"The predatory impact of PBM practices is extensively documented in the public record. And it is felt every day at pharmacy counters by millions of Americans who cannot afford their medicines. The time to deliver real results is now." November 28, 2023 Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce 2188 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Representative Frank Pallone Ranking Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce 2107 Rayburn Ho

Blaze Media Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is finally acknowledging some of the "unintended consequences" of Obamacare, according to the...

The bill (which passed unanimously) would introduce more transparency and regulation to PBMs, and pharmacies would be required to report...

CBS News The Biden administration's first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug...

STAT+ A key Senate panel announced it will consider more policies to regulate pharmacy middlemen and ensure patients aren’t paying more...