PBMs help insurers streamline drug management and may help negotiate lower drug costs with manufacturers. However, they may also profit from setting prices and controlling pharmacy networks, making ...
With multiple stakeholders involved with different interests, the “specialty drug” definition can be a moving target. The growing disproportionate amount of drug spending on such a small subset of ...
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) sit in the center of our prescription drug system, coordinating between insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. This gives them a uniquely powerful ...
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 ...
PhRMA is again turning up the heat on both big insurance companies and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in a new ad highlighting middlemen that “own it all.” Healthcare consolidation—where big ...
On October 11, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 41 (SB-41) into law, introducing a comprehensive set of new regulations for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) operating in the ...