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Insurers, employers see payoffs switching to smaller PBMs
Modern Healthcare Smaller pharmacy benefit managers may be having more than a moment as some health insurers and employers show the major...

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Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier — The Danger of UnitedHealthcare for All
The New England Journal of Medicine To download a PDF of this article, click here UnitedHealth Group has recently come under fire. In...

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Spanberger Joins More Than 20 Colleagues in a Bipartisan, Bicameral Effort Urging the Defense Health Agency to Increase Oversight of Its Exclusive Contract with Express Scripts
Insurance NewsNet U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger joined a bipartisan group of more than 20 U.S. House and U.S. Senate colleagues...

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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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Health-Care Collusion Task Force Sets Stage for DOJ Enforcement
Justice Department poised to bring civil, criminal cases Enforcers expected to focus on data-sharing, use of AI Bloomberg Law The Justice...

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Price-gouging middlemen are why Arizonans can’t afford their prescriptions
AZ Mirror As an independent pharmacy owner of more than 18 years, I started my business with one goal in mind: to help patients. Our...

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Independent pharmacists start ads asking Congress for relief from PBMs, ask Supreme Court to hear a case
Northern Kentucky Tribune Independent community pharmacists have begun an advertising campaign to get Congress to rein in pharmacy...

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States urge Supreme Court to review PBM case
Modern Healthcare A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case they allege wrongfully...

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PBM executives invited to testify before House panel
STAT+ Executives from the three major pharmacy benefit manager companies have been invited to testify before the House Committee on...

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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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When Did Progressives Learn to Love Health Insurers?
Real Clear Health As long as I have been in politics, I have been keenly aware of the role that health insurers play in driving up health...

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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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The federal government will soon announce its payment rates and policy changes for the Medicare Advantage program. Here's how you can influence their decision.
In the coming days, the federal government will announce whether big health insurers that run the private Medicare Advantage program will...

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Amid increased federal scrutiny, PBMs pivot strategy to further squeeze independent pharmacies
Yahoo! Finance Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry...

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Mark Cuban: Five Ways that Big PBMs Hurt U.S. Healthcare–And How We Can Fix It
DRUG CHANNELS By Mark Cuban, Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Why does my company—the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs...

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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
ICYMI: Watch It Now

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First Look: PBM probe update
Axios Vitals Pharmacy benefit managers aren't fully complying with a federal probe into their business practices more than a year and a...

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