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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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Drug middlemen say Pharma sets prices. Then why do middlemen have hundreds for the same drug?
Ohio Capital Journal Pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers deny claims that they’re responsible for the inflating cost of...

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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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PBMs pay higher prices to their own pharmacies, FTC says
Modern Healthcare Drug middlemen paid their own mail-order pharmacies as much as 200 times more than the price at rival pharmacies for...

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Health insurers cover fewer drugs and make them harder to get
NPR To listen to this NPR report, click here Insurance coverage isn’t what it used to be when it comes to prescription drugs. Insurance...

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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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3Axis Report Scrutinizes PBM Spread Pricing Practice
The 3Axis Advisors analysis suggests PBMs’ spread pricing practices leads to employers being charged different amounts for the same...

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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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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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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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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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