PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51
KFF Health News Reporter: Andy Miller While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some...
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are Killing Indie Pharmacies and Limiting Patient Choice
The Body 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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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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NCPA Leads Retail Pharmacy in a Class Action Suit Against Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, and Optum for Data Breach and Losses
Plaintiffs say defendants failed to secure its network failed to provide adequate guidance, and cost them money NCPA Newsroom The...
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Do pharmacy benefit managers play a role in pharmacy closures?
Ziks Pharmacy seeing numerous customers rushing to them for care. Dayton Daily News As pharmacies continue to shutter across the nation...
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Pharmacy benefit managers profit at expense of patients and small pharmacies, FTC says
Pharmacy benefit managers may raise the prices of prescription drugs at the pharmacy counter, the Federal Trade Commission found. CNN...
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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 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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Miyares joins cohort pressing for U.S. Supreme Court to review pharmacy benefit manager case
Virginia Mercury Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants states to have more authority to regulate pharmacy benefit managers....
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PHARMACIES: PBMs are killing independent owners
Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press As a local pharmacist, it was refreshing for me to see an article in The Press about the challenges facing...
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As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind
Associated Press To view AP's interactive pharmacy access map, click here Opening stores used to mean everything to pharmacy chains. CVS...
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Patients, pharmacists march against PBM business model
Patients, pharmacists and their advocates marched at Express Scripts Headquarters in north St. Louis County Friday in opposition to the...
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Navarro Announces Completion of First Pharmacy Benefit Manager Exams
Efforts to protect consumers and independent pharmacies, and lower pharmaceutical costs continue Delaware News | Office of the Insurance...
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Chains Feeling the Squeeze
It’s time for the folks in Washington to stop paying lip service to the problem and pass legislation that will rein in the PBMs. Pharmacy...
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Nearly a third of independent pharmacies at risk of closure in 2024
The pharmacies are feeling the strains of a CMS rule that went into effect at the start of the year. Healthcare Brew Independent...
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The PBM-insurer mafia comes for community pharmacies
UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage...
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PBM bills, other health policies fail to make funding package
Modern Healthcare A healthcare package that would have advanced pharmacy benefit manager legislation and other healthcare priorities...
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Under threat from industry ‘middlemen,’ independent pharmacies gain allies in D.C., Frankfort
Pharmacy entrepreneur Mark Cuban had nothing good to say about pharmacy benefit managers, who also are the subject of a Kentucky bill...
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Lawsuit over reimbursement fees a factor in independent pharmacy struggles, expert says
TribLive In light of two local pharmacies shuttering their doors Wednesday, some are pointing to an ongoing federal lawsuit industry...
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Michigan’s Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensure and Regulation Act Takes Effect
Frier Levitt With the New Year underway, Pharmacies and Pharmacists throughout the country should be on the lookout for new laws taking...
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