PBM Reform

HEALTH CARE un-covered Authors: WENDELL POTTER & BRIAN KLEPPER Consolidating and cornering health-care markets In November, Optum...

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

2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs. MedCity News 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the...

NBC News 12 Wisconsin The only pharmacy in St Germain closed last month. It had been there for more than 40 years. The reason why it went...

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

Fox News 2 For nearly 30 years, Betty Whitcomb’s trusted this independently owned pharmacy in Overland for her pills. “He just lets me...

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...

Axios Vitals Employers are facing stronger legal requirements to ensure they aren't wasting their workers' money on overpriced health...

RealClear Health Small businesses -- your favorite local coffee shop, boutique, salon and florist -- punch way above their weight in the...

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

Chain Drug Review A new television ad from NACDS urges Congress to enact bipartisan pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms that it has...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 9, 2024 Governor’s Plan Includes Ending Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practice of Overcharging for Prescriptions, Ensuring No One is Forced to Choose Between Life-saving Medicine and Rent WINSTON-SALEM, NC (January 9, 2024) – Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) applauds Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs for her plan to bring soaring prescription drug prices under control by regulating how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) establish the pric

PHOENIX, AZ (December 19, 2023)  -  The Executive Board of Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency  (PUTT) today issued the following statement regarding the unanimous passage of new merger guidelines by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. “We applaud the FTC and DOJ for their  joint undertaking  to modernize American merger guidelines in a way that puts consumers first. For far too long vertical integration has been allowed to occur across a number of

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...

Lack of consistent insight into PBM service fees puts drugmakers at a disadvantage when calculating prices. MM+M | Medical Marketing &...

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...

To listen to this news interview on NPR, click here Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point....