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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...

The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly recently launched an antitrust investigation of UnitedHealth Group, which begs the question...

STAT+ News The biggest enticement that large pharmacy benefit managers offer to the employers that hire them is drug rebates — a steady...

HEALTH CARE un-covered by Wendell Potter Two newly published investigative reports, by the intrepid reporters at STAT News and The...

DC Journal | Inside Sources In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden doubled down on this commitment to decreasing...

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2024 “UnitedHealth Group’s Lack of an Execution-Ready Back Up Plan to Prevent Disruption to Patient Care is a Shocking Dereliction of Duty” WASHINGTON, DC (March 12, 2024) – Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency ( TruthRx.org ) released the following statement today regarding UnitedHealth Group’s failure to resolve predictable patient and provider access breakdowns following the February 21, 2024 cyber attack: “Over the last 21 days,

The hacking shut down the nation’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging...

Yahoo News Wondering where he could get prescription diabetic shoes after his neighborhood Davidsville Mainline Pharmacy closes, Jim Carr...

Simmering tensions in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry have turned into fault lines. The PBMs challenging the "big three"...

ICYMI: Watch It Now

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...

The Times-Tribune Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he...

Augusta Free Press A bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general is encouraging Congress to take decisive action to reform the way...

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