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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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CVS Health Changes Corporate Name to SVC Wealth
The Pharmacist Activist CVS announced today that it is changing its official corporate name to SVC Wealth. Spokesman Mickey D. Angelo...

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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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Big Insurance PBMs Will Shut Down Your Local Pharmacy
DC Journal | Inside Sources In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden doubled down on this commitment to decreasing...

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Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest U.S. Health Care Payment System
The hacking shut down the nation’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging...

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'Hitting a new crisis': Pharmacies feel pressure of low reimbursements; Mainline bowing out
Yahoo News Wondering where he could get prescription diabetic shoes after his neighborhood Davidsville Mainline Pharmacy closes, Jim Carr...

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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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Independent pharmacists fight burnout and industry pressures as Rite Aid and CVS close stores
The Times-Tribune Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he...

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The Albatross Around America’s Neck: How health-care opacity neutralizes competition and fuels a corporate race to corner health-care markets
HEALTH CARE un-covered Authors: WENDELL POTTER & BRIAN KLEPPER Consolidating and cornering health-care markets In November, Optum...

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Bill would save Kentucky consumers money, help independent pharmacies survive, says sponsor
Kentucky Lantern Four years after leading the effort to cut corporate middlemen out of the prescription drug business for Kentucky’s...

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2024: A Pivotal Year in Curbing Pharmacy Costs
2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs. MedCity News 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the...

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Local pharmacy owner, patient share concerns over relationships between PBMs and insurance companies
Fox News 2 For nearly 30 years, Betty Whitcomb’s trusted this independently owned pharmacy in Overland for her pills. “He just lets me...

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PBMs Implement Sweeping Reimbursement Cuts and Ramp Up Audits
Actions add a dour note to the new year Pharmacy Practice News Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have responded to the new Centers for...

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Have You Been Overcharged for Prescription Drugs? We Want to Hear From You.
The New York Times is looking into pharmacy benefit managers, which play crucial roles in determining which medications your insurance...

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NACDS unveils new spot on PBM reform
Chain Drug Review A new television ad from NACDS urges Congress to enact bipartisan pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms that it has...

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Pharmacies fear New Year’s financial squeeze from Biden administration rule
STAT+ The Biden administration seemed to be giving pharmacies a win when they forced pharmacy benefit managers to be more up-front about...

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UnitedHealth, OptumRx sued by independent pharmacy over ‘unconscionable’ fees
Osterhaus Pharmacy in Iowa is also behind a similar suit against CVS Caremark. Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: UnitedHealth and its pharmacy...

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The looming pharmacy crisis in America | NPR's On Point
To listen to this news interview on NPR, click here Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point....

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