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NYC Transit Retirees WIN Important Battle Against Medicare Advantage Push
TWU Local 100 retirees fighting to retain their traditional Medicare Benefits were dismissed back in October — this week, they won a...
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Dec 26, 20236 min read
UnitedHealth, OptumRx sued by independent pharmacy over ‘unconscionable’ fees
Osterhaus Pharmacy in Iowa is also behind a similar suit against CVS Caremark. Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: UnitedHealth and its pharmacy...
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Dec 21, 20233 min read
Statement | PUTT Applauds FTC & DOJ For Passage of Mergers and Acquisitions Guidelines That Place Consumers Before Corporations
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
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Dec 19, 20231 min read
The House passed its health bill. How's the Senate doing?
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...
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Dec 14, 20232 min read
Pharma has little visibility into the growing area of PBM fees
Lack of consistent insight into PBM service fees puts drugmakers at a disadvantage when calculating prices. MM+M | Medical Marketing &...
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Dec 13, 20234 min read
House passes site-neutral policy, transparency, PBM reform package
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...
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Dec 12, 20232 min read
E&C approves PBM, Medicare coverage bills
Axios Pro The House Energy and Commerce Committee teed up a series of health bills for floor votes during a marathon markup on Wednesday...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
The looming pharmacy crisis in America | NPR's On Point
To listen to this news interview on NPR, click here Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point....
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Dec 9, 202318 min read
Reforming PBM Practices Would Improve The Pharmacy Market
Forbes Patients, the ultimate healthcare arbiter, continue to bear the costs from the perverse incentives driving the pharmacy benefit...
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Dec 7, 20234 min read
The antitrust tripwire for health insurers Cigna and Humana
Axios A deal reportedly brewing between health insurance giants Cigna and Humana will likely face antitrust challenges over their...
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Dec 6, 20232 min read
How Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
Oregon Live | Business When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones would not subside, his doctor had a hunch what was wrong....
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Dec 1, 202310 min read
PBM Accountability Project, Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency, and Nearly 50 Other Stakeholder Organizations Urge Congress to Pass PBM Reforms
"The predatory impact of PBM practices is extensively documented in the public record. And it is felt every day at pharmacy counters by millions of Americans who cannot afford their medicines. The time to deliver real results is now." November 28, 2023 Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce 2188 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Representative Frank Pallone Ranking Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce 2107 Rayburn Ho
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Nov 28, 20235 min read
Sen. Warren finally wises up to the 'unintended consequences' of a key Obamacare rule
Blaze Media Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is finally acknowledging some of the "unintended consequences" of Obamacare, according to the...
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Nov 27, 20232 min read
Senate Finance Committee targets PBM reform in new legislation
The bill (which passed unanimously) would introduce more transparency and regulation to PBMs, and pharmacies would be required to report...
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Nov 16, 20233 min read
Biden's limit on drug industry middlemen backfires, pharmacists say
CBS News The Biden administration's first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug...
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Nov 14, 20235 min read
IAM Healthcare launches campaign to unionize retail pharmacy workers
CNN Business Retail pharmacy workers have told CNN that their employers have left them severely overworked and understaffed. These harsh...
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Nov 11, 20235 min read
Ohio pharmacy board members seem skeptical of CVS claims
Ohio Capital Journal A disciplinary hearing related to understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Ohio didn’t come to a conclusion...
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Nov 10, 20234 min read
Study Highlights PBMs’ Role in Drug Prices
An analysis by 3 Axis Advisors has found that there is a large variability in pharmacy reimbursement of prescription drugs depending on...
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Nov 9, 20233 min read
Key Senate panel to consider PBM, drug pricing reform package
STAT+ A key Senate panel announced it will consider more policies to regulate pharmacy middlemen and ensure patients aren’t paying more...
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Nov 7, 20233 min read
How the secrecy of middlemen inflates drug prices
The Hill Most Americans believe drugs cost too much and big pharma is to blame. That powerful political sentiment undergirds Medicare’s...
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Oct 25, 20234 min read
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