The conclusion of the longest government shutdown in history and rising political acrimony rightly receives a great deal of attention but this focus makes it easy to overlook areas where beneficial ...
Pharmacy benefit managers act as middlemen between drugmakers, insurers, pharmacies and patients and are accused of selling marked-up medicine.
The bill advanced out of the House Welfare Committee without objection after being amended.
Reforming the prescription system could lead to major savings for patients, with one report putting the number as high as $100 billion annually.
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have used market leverage to demand rebates, which can lead drug manufacturers to increase sticker prices.
On Monday, a state-funded committee in Louisiana gave Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company a taxpayer-funded microphone to attack Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). But what the public was not made ...
Some employers and health systems in North Carolina are looking to change how they manage prescription drug benefits for their employees. More employers are considering alternative pharmacy benefit ...
A spectacular political fight between state lawmakers backed by Gov. Jeff Landry and health care giant CVS defined the final days of the Louisiana Legislature’s regular session this year. At issue was ...
Employers are becoming more interested in switching to a pharmacy benefit manager they perceive as being more transparent than the “big three,” according to new data published by the National Alliance ...
I am a pharmacist. I am a pharmacy owner. I am an employer. And for six months of my life, I was also a cancer patient.