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Patient Issues


Improve the Pharmaceutical Ecosystem for Patients
Health care policy decisions based on sound data and research are essential for addressing the challenges. Pharmacy Times Pharmacists are...
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May 17, 20224 min read


Biden plan to slash pharmacy fees, cut seniors' out-of-pocket costs delayed until 2024
The Columbus Dispatch Millions of U.S. seniors were supposed to get price relief soon on their prescription drugs under a revamp of...
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May 1, 20224 min read


How a Formulary Change and a Few Tweets Led to a HIPAA Complaint
Patient and patient advocate Beth Waldron used her social media platform to criticize CVS Caremark’s removal of Eliquis (apixaban) from...
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Apr 22, 20227 min read


CEO of upstart PBM: What CVS, Cigna and other PBMs are doing in drug pricing is neither sustainable
A.J. Loiacono was speaking at MedCity INVEST in late March in Chicago when an audience member requested him to address whether it is...
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Apr 14, 20225 min read


Oklahoma pharmacist: 'I can tell you the system is broken'
The Oklahoman When Oklahomans step up to my pharmacy counter, it’s usually because something is wrong. There is chronic disease, pain and...
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Mar 28, 20223 min read


Pharmacy Agent Study Would Show Role in Drug Price ‘Dysfunction’
Rebates should get focus in PBM probe, policy watchers say Proprietary data protections can complicate transparency Bloomberg Law The...
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Mar 7, 20224 min read


Curbing costs by rethinking PBMs
Misaligned incentives, spread pricing, opaque rebates, and specialty distribution models perpetuate extensive customer mistrust in PBMs,...
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Feb 4, 20224 min read


PBMs: When You're Buying Meds They Get The Rebates, You Get The Shaft
Indiana News Radio WIBC Last week a pharmaceutical industry expert named Antonio Ciaccia, testified in front of the Indiana General...
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Jan 28, 20222 min read


Three Big Health Insurance Myths
How insurers deflect criticism, avoid reform and preserve the status quo. Un-Covered When I was a health insurance communications exec, I...
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Jan 24, 20224 min read


While UnitedHealth Reports $24B in Profits, Americans Faced 200% Increases in Out-of-Pocket Costs
No insurer has ever made that kind of money in U.S. history. Wendell Potter NOW Just days after a Commonwealth Fund report showed that...
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Jan 21, 20222 min read
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