Capitol Insider: 'The PBM robbed her of hope'; pharmacy benefit managers ripped in hearing
The Columbus Dispatch Pharmacy benefit managers found out during a congressional hearing what the turkey's gonna feel like Thursday:...
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New Mexico State Auditor Refers Pharmacy Benefit Managers Examination To Attorney General’s Office
Los Alamos Daily Post In early 2020, State Auditor Brian S. Colón initiated an investigation of the Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) that...
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Drug price transparency could return as top legislative issue
Insurance News Net - Drug prices and who controls them could be back before the General Assembly this winter, as consumer advocates and...
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'To me, that's fraudulent': Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers vow to fix loophole exploited by PBMs
The Columbus Dispatch A bipartisan duo of Ohio legislators are outraged that the measure they sponsored more than two years ago to ban a...
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Survey Shows Predatory PBM Practices Destroying Independent Pharmacies
Delaware News A survey of Delaware’s independent community pharmacists on the impact of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) reveals...
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Kansas Investigates Obscure But Powerful Part Of The Drug Supply Chain: Pharmacy Middlemen
Being a middleman in the $1 trillion pharmaceutical industry is big business. The middlemen can even earn more than the drugmakers on...
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Study: Drug utilization costs health industry $93B a year, with patients bearing most of the cost
Fierce Healthcare Drug utilization management such as prior authorization and stricter formularies cost the healthcare industry $93...
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Why the pharmaceutical industry has 'mixed views' on Biden's latest executive order
The American Pharmacists Association "has mixed views" on the executive order President Joe Biden signed July 9 to address competition...
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North Dakota law aimed at regulating PBMs gets support from Minnesota, others
Associated Press A coalition of attorneys general from nearly three dozen states — including Minnesota but not Wisconsin or Iowa — and...
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A tremendous session for Texas community pharmacies and their patients
Star Local Media Kudos to the Texas Legislature for their decisive actions this session to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)....
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Federal regulator’s oversight of the drug supply chain blasted — by one of the regulators
Ohio Capital Journal One of two federal agencies tasked with policing anticompetitive behavior among corporations last week said it has a...
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Sunlight Is The Cure For High Drug Prices
The Economic Standard Congress is considering legislation to rein in runaway drug prices. But any new law would be just political theater...
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DOJ investigating UnitedHealth Group's $13 billion Change Healthcare acquisition
Modern Healthcare Federal officials want a second look at UnitedHealth Group's $13 billion plan to acquire data analytics and revenue...
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Overworked, understaffed: Pharmacists say industry in crisis puts patient safety at risk
"We're going to have a fatal error somewhere," said a pharmacy technician in New York, "because we're doing too many things at once.” NBC...
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Rural Americans in pharmacy deserts hurting for COVID vaccines
The Colorado Sun As the Biden administration accelerates a plan to use pharmacies to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, significant areas of...
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Senate bill step in right direction to rein in insurance tactic
Arizona Capitol Times Senator Nancy Barto has shown great insight into the health care needs of our Arizona community in sponsoring...
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The hidden players putting independent pharmacies out of business
NPR The Pulse NPR Editor’s note: Many independent pharmacies say their business model is threatened by pharmacy benefit managers. To see...
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Small pharmacies beat big chains at delivering vaccines. Don’t look so shocked.
The Washington Post Americans think large enterprises are invariably more efficient. They aren’t. More than a month into the coronavirus...
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Pharmacy benefit managers take heavy criticism from a new source: local officials
STAT News In what is being described as an unusual move, a Pennsylvania county is openly blaming pharmacy benefit managers for high...
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We’re relying on the wrong pharmacies for vaccinations
Focus should be on small organizations – not chains Commonwealth ACCORDING TO THE US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
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