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Vertically integrated payer-provider groups raise antitrust concerns

Modern Healthcare More commercial insurers are overhauling their business models in response to changes ushered in by the Affordable Care...

3 min

Yost opens investigation into PBM maneuver

Insurance NewsNet Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has launched an investigation into an obscure drug-pricing maneuver that could be both...

4 min

Pharmacy Agent Study Would Show Role in Drug Price ‘Dysfunction’

Rebates should get focus in PBM probe, policy watchers say Proprietary data protections can complicate transparency Bloomberg Law The...

4 min

Pinched Pharmacies Pressure FTC to Take Action on Drug Costs

FTC likely to study pharmacy benefit managers Independent pharmacies join criticism of powerful middlemen Bloomberg Law Independent...

5 min

To Be, Or Not To Be... A Fiduciary

Faced with what appears to be an endless increase in prescription drug costs, employers need a clear view into the prices they pay for...

4 min

Curbing costs by rethinking PBMs

Misaligned incentives, spread pricing, opaque rebates, and specialty distribution models perpetuate extensive customer mistrust in PBMs,...

2 min

PBMs: When You're Buying Meds They Get The Rebates, You Get The Shaft

Indiana News Radio WIBC Last week a pharmaceutical industry expert named Antonio Ciaccia, testified in front of the Indiana General...

4 min

Three Big Health Insurance Myths

How insurers deflect criticism, avoid reform and preserve the status quo. Un-Covered When I was a health insurance communications exec, I...

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While UnitedHealth Reports $24B in Profits, Americans Faced 200% Increases in Out-of-Pocket Costs

No insurer has ever made that kind of money in U.S. history. Wendell Potter NOW Just days after a Commonwealth Fund report showed that...

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