I visited a pharmacy earlier this year that is dispensing twice as many prescriptions as when they opened five years ago, but ...
When a well-established local pharmacy can’t fill a prescription because doing so would cost the pharmacy money, it signals a ...
Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty ...
The middlemen are called pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs, and they have […] A federal antitrust watchdog is already conducting an investigation into and has filed a lawsuit against huge ...
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One exception that enjoys bipartisan support, however, is the effort to rehab the drug supply chain. It’s currently dominated ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...
The owner of one of the three largest pharmacy middlemen in the United States last month filed suit to quash an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to investigate industry ...
At the top of the list are pharmacy benefit managers and the roadblocks they create ... there have been important efforts to rein in these middlemen who drive up costs for vulnerable patients. Current ...
Huge health conglomerates have another reason to worry that their business model might be disrupted. On a visit to Columbus, ...
The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...