Recent legislation aimed at reforming PBM practices, including transparency and decoupling their compensation from drug rebates was scrapped after opposition from President-elect Donald Trump's allies ...
Insurer-pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) firms control most of the Medicare Part D market, steering patients to their ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) sit in the center of our prescription drug system, coordinating between insurance companies, ...
As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months ...
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NPCA) is warning the feds that independent pharmacists are likely to face ...
Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.
An arbitrator has determined Prime Therapeutics violated federal and state antitrust laws against the AIDS Healthcare ...
Douglas Hoey, said in a statement, “PBM reform would rein in the big health insurance lobby, save taxpayers $5 billion, and throw a lifeline to the thousands of small, family-owned pharmacies ...
Pharmacy advocate groups are teaming up with lawmakers to get new legislation passed to stop monopolistic behaviors from ...
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 ...
Margin expansion at Express Scripts, Caremark and Optum Rx increased by $336 million between 2017 and 2021, officials say.
Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in ...