PBM Reform

AZ Mirror As an independent pharmacy owner of more than 18 years, I started my business with one goal in mind: to help patients. Our...

Northern Kentucky Tribune Independent community pharmacists have begun an advertising campaign to get Congress to rein in pharmacy...

Modern Healthcare A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case they allege wrongfully...

STAT+ Executives from the three major pharmacy benefit manager companies have been invited to testify before the House Committee on...

“They have the power to create a monopolistic system, which is what they're doing,” says Loretta Boesing Riverfront Times Loretta...

Real Clear Health As long as I have been in politics, I have been keenly aware of the role that health insurers play in driving up health...

Ohio Capital Journal Businessman and TV personality Mark Cuban has a seemingly straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned...

Forbes Following an enormous cyberattack on a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the Senate Finance Committee has called the company's...

National Consumers League | Blog Post A recent op-ed, “It’s Time for Facts in the PBM Debate” by the president of one of the nation’s...

In the coming days, the federal government will announce whether big health insurers that run the private Medicare Advantage program will...

Yahoo! Finance Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry...

DRUG CHANNELS By Mark Cuban, Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Why does my company—the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 13, 2024  Governor Lujan Grisham, State Legislature “Draw a Line in the Sand” by Requiring Transparency Reporting and Fair Community Pharmacy Reimbursements  SANTA FE, NM (March 13, 2024) – Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) applauds New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the State Legislature for enacting HB 33, the “Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act”, which requires organizations that set or influence the price co

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 Vitals Pharmacy benefit managers aren't fully complying with a federal probe into their business practices more than a year and a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2024 “Every day that passes without PBM reform is a day a community in America risks losing access to a pharmacy, its most readily available healthcare provider. ”  PHOENIX, AZ (February 27, 2024) – The Executive Board of Directors of Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency ( PUTT ) issued the following statement after Congress’ decision to eliminate pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform provisions in the government’s latest funding pa

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...