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In a Kansas City Star guest commentary (6/25/25 page 14A), Jamie Corley, executive director of the nonprofit Prescription ...
PBMs argue that as middlemen between large pharmaceutical companies and consumers, they save patients money. Middlemen contend that critics have cherry-picked cases while “completely ...
A Different Model. But these alternative PBMs operate in a different way -- they charge a flat per-member-per-month fee to employers and then pass along 100% of rebates to them, which they contend ...
Many proposals to reform the PBM industry miss the forest for the trees, experts said this week. Instead, Congress should go ...
CMS chief Mehmet Oz, MD, is calling on the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers to voluntarily abandon the current drug rebate model, or risk its elimination by the government, Bloomberg ...
More regulations are coming for pharmacy benefit managers with a bipartisan bill Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Tuesday.
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of Iowa's new law regulating pharmacy ...
PBMs—armed with more competitive drug offerings—can then do precisely what they were designed to do: drive down drug costs through robust negotiation, streamlined distribution, and increased ...
Insights on ways pharmacy benefit managers can tap earned media to enhance their reputation—and demonstrate value through ...
Kentucky’s independent pharmacies, facing ongoing financial pressure, had hoped for relief from a new law meant to give them ...
The PBMs do not reimburse pharmacies for these transactions, meaning the patients' cash payment represents the pharmacies' only revenue, and PBMs' profits increase, the lawsuits say.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Oklahoma’s PBM law, leaving in place a ruling that found key parts preempted by ERISA and Medicare Part D.