FTC Pulls Back From Prior Support for Pharmacy Benefit Middlemen
Policy from 2000s put PBMs in ‘regulatory free zone’ Push for oversight of the companies heats up Bloomberg Law The FTC on Thursday plans...
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“Corners are cut to dispense prescriptions,” CVS employee tells Ohio Board of Pharmacy
After years of buying and closing competitors, CVS understaffing leads to chaos and delays, Ohio regulator says Ohio Capitol Journal At...
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How UHC’s acquisition of a popular Medicare Adv. algorithm sparked internal dissent over denied care
STAT News Reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman Frustration was boiling into open conflict within NaviHealth, a company that uses computer...
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‘It’s beyond unethical’: Opaque conflicts of interest permeate prescription drug benefits
STAT+ Employers across the country — from big names like Boeing and UPS to local school systems — pay consulting firms to handle a...
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Your Drug Rebate Check Is in the Mail…to Switzerland
Real Clear Health More than 7 million US citizens depend on insulin to live, but more than 16 percent of Americans, are rationing their...
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Another Dispatch From the Accumulator-Maximizer Wars
Vanderbilt’s Stacie Dusetzina and colleagues explain how the ‘copay adjustment’ programs work in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine and...
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State Insurance Commissioners Seek Meeting With FTC On PBMs
Inside Health Policy The group representing state insurance commissioners is seeking information from the Justice Department and Federal...
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How to Fix the National Drug Shortage
The New York Times The Times reported last month that drug shortages in the United States are approaching record levels, with thousands...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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