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PBM Reform
Bipartisan support on key panel for crackdown on pharmaceutical middlemen
The Washington Examiner Members of both parties on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability expressed support for the...
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May 30, 20233 min read
US Officials Probe a New Layer in Opaque Drug Pricing, Supply System
Round of subpoenas is the latest attempt to pierce industry Entities allow PBMs to ‘hide the ball,’ consultant says Bloomberg US...
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May 23, 20234 min read
A More Aggressive FTC Is Starting to Target Drug Mergers and Industry Middlemen
KFF Health News Under the leadership of an aggressive opponent of anti-competitive business practices, the Federal Trade Commission is...
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May 22, 20235 min read
PBM landscape in for a shakeup
Axios Pro A Congressional panel unanimously advanced legislation with new transparency requirements for pharmacy benefit managers on...
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May 19, 20232 min read
FTC Deepens Inquiry into Prescription Drug Middlemen
Agency issues orders to companies affiliated with CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Prime Therapeutics as it examines the PBMs’ impact...
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May 17, 20232 min read
Prescription-drug costs in spotlight as pharmacy benefit reform advances in Senate
Drugmakers, prescription-drug middlemen trade jabs over high cost of medications MarketWatch A bipartisan effort to rein in prescription...
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May 11, 20233 min read
Will Senate Hearing Expose PBMs’ Unscrupulous Drug Pricing Tactics?
Forbes Today , Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will haul executives from three insulin manufacturers and three pharmacy benefit managers...
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May 11, 20233 min read
Another powerful congressional committee is ready to take on PBMs
STAT+ House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer plans to hold a hearing on the results of an investigation into the business...
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May 3, 20233 min read
Bipartisan Senate plan would regulate PBM compensation, target ‘unfair’ drug price hikes
Healio Key takeaways: The bipartisan plan would decouple pharmacy benefit manager compensation from drug prices, among other reforms. The...
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Apr 25, 20232 min read
Move the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022 forward
CT Mirror “I cannot afford to live.” – Patients are screaming at the outrageous prescription drug costs. The U.S. spends three times more...
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Apr 11, 20233 min read
National Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Congressional Efforts to Hold PBMs Accountable
Bipartisan Respondents Strongly Favor Policies that Require PBMs to Provide Value and Lower Drug Costs PBM Accountability Project With...
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
Senate Commerce approves PBM transparency bill
Axios Pro The Senate Commerce Committee approved the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act Wednesday on an 18-9 vote. Why...
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Mar 22, 20232 min read
Pharmacy-benefit managers could face more SD regs
Keloland Capitol News Bureau Pharmacists would be at less of a disadvantage on business arrangements such as prescription-drug prices...
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Mar 3, 20232 min read
OK Commissioner Mulready sets record straight about changes to prescription program
The Duncan Banner The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) has become aware of inaccurate and misleading communications affecting Oklahoma...
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Mar 2, 20232 min read
Congress Investigates How Pharma Middlemen Affect Drug Prices
Panel asks CVS Caremark and other pharmacy-benefit managers about fees The Wall Street Journal House Republicans have launched an...
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Mar 1, 20233 min read
Corporations try to kill Oklahoma rule that aims to keep prescription temperatures safe
A pharmacy rule pending in Oklahoma could be the first in the nation to tighten safety on temperature exposure for mailed medications,...
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Feb 18, 20235 min read
Biden’s SOTU Targets Drug Companies, But Misses Opportunity To Challenge Health Insurers And PBMs
Forbes President Biden’s State of the Union Address hammered home the point that drug prices must come down. He reminded viewers that he...
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Feb 17, 20235 min read
‘We Ain’t Gonna Get It’: Why Bernie Sanders Says His ‘Medicare for All’ Dream Must Wait
KHN After railing at the injustices of U.S. health care for decades, Sen. Bernie Sanders in January became the new chairman of the Senate...
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Feb 16, 20236 min read
Rural Oregon pharmacies fear closure without further health care industry regulation
A trio of bills would create new rules for pharmaceutical middlemen in the state. Oregon Public Broadcasting Less competition has meant...
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Feb 10, 20234 min read
Mississippi lawmakers propose bill targeting pharmacy benefit managers
Super Talk | Mississippi Media Mississippi hospitals aren’t the only ones in need. According to Robert Dozier of the Mississippi...
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Feb 8, 20232 min read
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