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The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry is under pressure to shift to models that avoid conflicts of interest and ...
Drug price middlemen are going to court to fight a first-in-the-nation effort to police their ownership of retail pharmacies ...
As Rite Aid stores close, independent pharmacists are raising the alarm bell against pharmacy benefit managers, saying they're the problem with the fall of the chain pharmacy business.
Since January 2024, at least 200 pharmacies have closed across the state. Now, independent pharmacists are asking lawmakers ...
State House, Senate pass legislation that would regulate pharmacy benefit managers, which manage prescription drug benefits ...
Lawmakers in states across the country are advancing legislation to regulate pharmacy benefit managers. New bills in North Carolina and Illinois aim to curb practices critics claim inflate drug prices ...
Independent pharmacies across Illinois are breathing easier as the Illinois legislature throws a lifeline with a bipartisan bill reforming Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs.
The latest misguided attack levied at PBMs comes from state attorneys general urging Congress to prohibit PBMs and their parent companies from owning pharmacies. Unfortunately, the State AGs are ...
CVS said in it suit that while Arkansas officials have argued that the law will benefit independent pharmacies that are underpaid by PBMs, it also offers a windfall to retail giant Walmart ...
To help keep drug prices reasonable, the legislature should reign in the middlemen that help drive up prices, this guest ...
They add or subtract medications through a process that emphasizes profits for the pharmacy benefit manager by way of “rebates” from drug makers, said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and ...