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How the prescription drug supply chain is killing local pharmacies
To watch this investigative report on PBS, please click here PBS NewsHour Reporter: Fred de Sam Lazaro The supply chain that brings...

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3-Part Investigative Series on PBMs & Copay Accumulators
ABC 6 On Your Side, Columbus, Ohio Investigative Reporter: Darrel Rowland To view graphics and data for this investigative series, go to...

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Cigna lawsuit over algorithm allegations could be first of many
Modern Healthcare Reporter: NONA TEPPER Two Cigna members filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in a California federal court on...

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FTC Walks Back Years of Support for Pharmacy Benefits Middlemen
Vote withdraws 11 letters, reports supporting PBMs Industry group argues pharmacy benefit market is ‘dynamic’ Bloomberg Law The FTC voted...

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FTC Pulls Back From Prior Support for Pharmacy Benefit Middlemen
Policy from 2000s put PBMs in ‘regulatory free zone’ Push for oversight of the companies heats up Bloomberg Law The FTC on Thursday plans...

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“Corners are cut to dispense prescriptions,” CVS employee tells Ohio Board of Pharmacy
After years of buying and closing competitors, CVS understaffing leads to chaos and delays, Ohio regulator says Ohio Capitol Journal At...

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Congress Voices Bipartisan Support for FTC’s Fight Against Monopoly Power
American Economic Liberties Project During the first half of an oversight hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today, a bipartisan...

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How UHC’s acquisition of a popular Medicare Adv. algorithm sparked internal dissent over denied care
STAT News Reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman Frustration was boiling into open conflict within NaviHealth, a company that uses computer...

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House committee approves PBM transparency bills
Modern Healthcare Reporter: LAUREN BERRYMAN Yet another congressional committee has advanced legislation aimed at bringing down...

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‘It’s beyond unethical’: Opaque conflicts of interest permeate prescription drug benefits
STAT+ Employers across the country — from big names like Boeing and UPS to local school systems — pay consulting firms to handle a...

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Your Drug Rebate Check Is in the Mail…to Switzerland
Real Clear Health More than 7 million US citizens depend on insulin to live, but more than 16 percent of Americans, are rationing their...

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Another Dispatch From the Accumulator-Maximizer Wars
Vanderbilt’s Stacie Dusetzina and colleagues explain how the ‘copay adjustment’ programs work in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine and...

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State Insurance Commissioners Seek Meeting With FTC On PBMs
Inside Health Policy The group representing state insurance commissioners is seeking information from the Justice Department and Federal...

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How to Fix the National Drug Shortage
The New York Times The Times reported last month that drug shortages in the United States are approaching record levels, with thousands...

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Bills intended to help Oregon pharmacies caught up in walkout
Lawmakers began regulating pharmacy benefit managers in 2015, but the state has never issued an enforcement action The Lund Report Every...

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Bipartisan support on key panel for crackdown on pharmaceutical middlemen
The Washington Examiner Members of both parties on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability expressed support for the...

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Policing prescription-drug middlemen’s middlemen
Drug pricing: Antitrust regulator to probe shadowy purchasing organizations Ohio Capital Journal The Federal Trade Commission on...

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Denials of health-insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder
Washington Post Opinion Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a...

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US Officials Probe a New Layer in Opaque Drug Pricing, Supply System
Round of subpoenas is the latest attempt to pierce industry Entities allow PBMs to ‘hide the ball,’ consultant says Bloomberg US...

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A More Aggressive FTC Is Starting to Target Drug Mergers and Industry Middlemen
KFF Health News Under the leadership of an aggressive opponent of anti-competitive business practices, the Federal Trade Commission is...

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