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In the News | How a Duty To Spend Wisely on Worker Benefits Could Loosen PBMs’ Grip on Drug Prices
KFF Health News Reporter: Arthur Allen Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the...

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Justice Department antitrust division looking at health care conglomerates, pharmacy drug middlemen
Ohio Capital Journal reporter: Marty Schladen Huge health conglomerates have another reason to worry that their business model might be...

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Weatherford pharmacist joins lawmakers, peers from six states supporting bill at U.S. Capitol
Weatherford Democrat Reporter: Glenn Evans gevans@weatherforddemocrat.com A Weatherford pharmacist joined members of Congress and her...

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Federal Trade Commission sues largest drug middlemen for allegedly inflating insulin prices
CNN Reporter: Tami Luhby , CNN The Federal Trade Commission took action Friday against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit...

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Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are Killing Indie Pharmacies and Limiting Patient Choice
TheBody Reporter: Tim Murphy I had a shocking revelation recently. For several years here in my New York neighborhood in Queens, I’ve...

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Rally outside Optum HQ spotlights debate over pharmacy benefits managers
Minnesota Star Tribune Reporter: Christopher Snowbeck Critics of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry protested Friday outside the...

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A PBM Oligopoly: Three Companies Control 80% Of US Prescriptions – How Can We Fix It?
Forbes After two years of research, the Federal Trade Commission's recent interim report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers has...

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States Keep Legal Pressure on PBMs Ahead of Potential FTC Suit
State AGs are forging ahead with price-fixing lawsuits FTC appears poised to file its own lawsuit against PBMs Bloomberg Law States are...

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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill aiming to crack down on drug middlemen as scrutiny ramps up
Bipartisan lawmakers introduced a new bill that aims to crack down on the business practices of drug supply chain middlemen who allegedly...

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Pharmacy middlemen claim to keep prescription prices low. In fact, they’ve cost consumers billions
Los Angeles Times In 2022, an executive of a big pharmacy middleman firm acknowledged the noxious reality of its business model: It was...

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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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