What Are PBMs? Chuck Grassley Presses RFK Jr. On Accountability For Pharmacy Benefit Managers At Confirmation Hearing
President Trump's nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was questioned harshly by both Democrats and ...
Cigna taking steps to lower out-of-pocket cost of prescription drugs
Cigna's Evernorth Health Services said on Wednesday its actions will enhance transparency about the company's negotiations.
‘Chose rent over his medicine’: Parents of 22-year-old who died from asthma attack sue pharmacy over inhaler price jump
The parents of a young Wisconsin man have sued Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx over their son’s death from an ...
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PBM Prime Therapeutics to Pay $10 Million Antitrust Case Over Price-Fixing Scheme with Express Scripts, Inc.
In a recent antitrust arbitration ruling, Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by 19 Blue Cross and ...
Opinion
Congress Can't Wait—Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Deliver Lower-Cost Drugs for Patients | Opinion
The PBM system intentionally blocks lower-cost, FDA-approved biosimilars from being available to patients. Biosimilars are the commonsense, bipartisan solution to out-of-control prescription drug ...
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Foundation Scores a $10M Judgment Award
Hollywood-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation has won a $10.3 million arbitration award in a dispute with a pharmacy benefit ...
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House passes pharmacy benefit manager transparency bill
A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that ...
Becker's Hospital Review4d
More health systems bringing PBMs in house: 5 things to know
As PBM services have traditionally been dominated by large companies such as CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx, health systems are starting to create alternatives. Here are four more things to ...