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Independent local pharmacies at risk as reimbursement environment prompting closures
Weatherford Democrat Editor’s note: This is the second story of a multi-part series on challenges rural pharmacies are facing. Part I of...

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Mail-Order Drugs Were Supposed to Keep Costs Down. It’s Doing the Opposite.
One employer was paying about $100 for a prescription for a generic antidepressant, though it could be bought elsewhere for about $12 The...

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The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs
Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. The New York Times Americans...

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The U.S. drugstore is caught in a perfect storm, ditched by customers and squeezed by insurance middlemen: ‘Pharmacies are in shambles’
Yahoo Finance Good morning. Fortune senior features writer Maria Aspan here, writing from New York City. I’ve spent the last few months...

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Critics of Pharmacy Benefit Managers to Protest at Express Scripts
“They have the power to create a monopolistic system, which is what they're doing,” says Loretta Boesing Riverfront Times Loretta...

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No profits for prescriptions: Independent pharmacies raise concerns
WCBI CBS News The technicians at Chris’s Pharmacy in Columbus hardly ever stop, from opening until closing. There’s plenty of business....

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Mark Cuban has a simple question for CVS’s drug middleman: Why don’t you publish your prices?
Ohio Capital Journal Businessman and TV personality Mark Cuban has a seemingly straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned...

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Congress Has A Big Chance To Investigate A Financial Threat To Patients
Forbes Following an enormous cyberattack on a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the Senate Finance Committee has called the company's...

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Not so fast, PBMs: You aren’t fooling consumers
National Consumers League | Blog Post A recent op-ed, “It’s Time for Facts in the PBM Debate” by the president of one of the nation’s...

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Long-term care pharmacies forced to borrow to buy resident drugs, close as intermediaries tighten grip on sector
McKnights Senior Living Long-term care resident access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors...

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Are below cost reimbursement practices by Pharmacy Benefit Managers creating opportunity for criminals to enter the legitimate supply chain?
The Partnership for Safe Medicines Whether it’s N95 masks, airbags, or helmets, demand for a product that the legitimate market cannot...

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Big Insurance PBMs Will Shut Down Your Local Pharmacy
DC Journal | Inside Sources In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden doubled down on this commitment to decreasing...

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Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest U.S. Health Care Payment System
The hacking shut down the nation’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging...

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'Hitting a new crisis': Pharmacies feel pressure of low reimbursements; Mainline bowing out
Yahoo News Wondering where he could get prescription diabetic shoes after his neighborhood Davidsville Mainline Pharmacy closes, Jim Carr...

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Upended: Can PBM Transparency Succeed?
Simmering tensions in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry have turned into fault lines. The PBMs challenging the "big three"...

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White House Roundtable on Lowering Healthcare Costs and Bringing Transparency to Prescription Drug Middlemen
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Independent pharmacists fight burnout and industry pressures as Rite Aid and CVS close stores
The Times-Tribune Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he...

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The Albatross Around America’s Neck: How health-care opacity neutralizes competition and fuels a corporate race to corner health-care markets
HEALTH CARE un-covered Authors: WENDELL POTTER & BRIAN KLEPPER Consolidating and cornering health-care markets In November, Optum...

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Bill would save Kentucky consumers money, help independent pharmacies survive, says sponsor
Kentucky Lantern Four years after leading the effort to cut corporate middlemen out of the prescription drug business for Kentucky’s...

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2024: A Pivotal Year in Curbing Pharmacy Costs
2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs. MedCity News 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the...

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