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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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FTC plans to sue top 3 PBMs over insulin prices: WSJ
Yahoo Finance The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking to take legal action against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers...
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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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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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The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs
Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. The New York Times Americans...
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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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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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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Impact: Beware This Faustian Deal
RealClear Health The Biden administration is moving forward with a process that represents a sea change in how Medicare pays for drugs....
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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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DOJ Launches Task Force on Healthcare Monopolies: Will It Make A Difference?
The U.S. Department of Justice recently launched a task force on healthcare monopolies. Experts have varying opinions on how it will...
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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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