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Bills intended to help Oregon pharmacies caught up in walkout
Lawmakers began regulating pharmacy benefit managers in 2015, but the state has never issued an enforcement action The Lund Report Every...
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May 31, 20238 min read
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
PUTT Blog | Bravo to American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. for Calling On “Big 3” PBMs’ Largest Investor to Use Its Influence To Restrain PBM Economically Damaging Practices
This week American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI) took a bold step in the ongoing campaign for PBM reform: they openly called on Vanguard Inc., the largest investor of in the parent companies of the “Big 3” pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), to use its influence to curtail their PBMs’ abuse of patients and pharmacies. “As one of the largest investors in United Healthcare, CVS, and Cigna, Vanguard is in a unique position to help effectuate real and meaningful change on beh
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May 26, 20232 min read
Policing prescription-drug middlemen’s middlemen
Drug pricing: Antitrust regulator to probe shadowy purchasing organizations Ohio Capital Journal The Federal Trade Commission on...
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May 25, 20233 min read
Denials of health-insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder
Washington Post Opinion Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a...
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May 24, 20234 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
Patients Often Lose in the Battle between Pharma and PBMs
Over the last five years, both PBMs and drug manufacturers have implemented restrictions that put more of the costs for specialty...
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May 20, 20239 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
Report: “Specialty” drugs are by far the most expensive, but classification seems arbitrary
Ohio Capital Journal The prescriptions with the most eye-popping price tags — like cancer meds that can cost more than $20,000 a month —...
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May 18, 20234 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
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your...
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May 16, 202310 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
Patients Lose Access to Free Medicines Amid Spat Between Drugmakers, Health Plans
Pharmaceutical companies have cut financial assistance to thwart health-plan tactics The Wall Street Journal It is getting tougher for...
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May 4, 20234 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
The Implications of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Prioritizing Profit Over Patients
HCP Live Click Here to Watch the Video of Juliana Reed's Talk Juliana Reed, MS, executive director of the Biosimilars Forum, discussed...
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Apr 14, 20232 min read
Pharmacy benefit manager trade assoc. increased federal lobbying spending amid drug pricing scrutiny
Open Secrets Pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain, are under the microscope for their role in...
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Apr 13, 20235 min read
What is transparency? 6 things to look for in a PBM contract
Apparently, everyone is for transparency now. So why do employers and their brokers still struggle to understand prescription drug...
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Apr 12, 20236 min read
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