Another Dispatch From the Accumulator-Maximizer Wars
Vanderbilt’s Stacie Dusetzina and colleagues explain how the ‘copay adjustment’ programs work in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine and...
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- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Former Gov. Jane Swift testifies on medication access
The Salem News Former Gov. Jane Swift will return to the Beacon Hill spotlight this week when she adds her voice to growing debate about...
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- May 22
- 3 min
1 in 5 older adults skipped or delayed medications last year because of cost
Rising inflation and high prescription drug costs are thought to be responsible. NBC News A growing number of older adults say they can’t...
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- May 19
- 2 min
House panel advances bill to promote PBM transparency
Modern Healthcare Pharmacy benefit managers would be subject to new transparency rules under legislation that cleared a key House...
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- May 17
- 4 min
Report: “Specialty” drugs are by far the most expensive, but classification seems arbitrary
Ohio Capital Journal The prescriptions with the most eye-popping price tags — like cancer meds that can cost more than $20,000 a month —...
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- Apr 25
- 2 min
Powerful Senate duo drops a bipartisan PBM reform plan
STAT+ The chair and ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday unveiled a bipartisan list of overarching reforms to...
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- Apr 13
- 2 min
Pharmacy benefit managers are picking patients' pockets
Washington Examiner Pharmacy benefit managers are in the congressional hot seat. Last Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held a...
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- Apr 11
- 6 min
What is transparency? 6 things to look for in a PBM contract
Apparently, everyone is for transparency now. So why do employers and their brokers still struggle to understand prescription drug...
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- Apr 6
- 2 min
Drug middlemen switch tactics, but the outcome is the same: high prices
STAT+ News Prescription drug middlemen are shifting away from rebates that have been blamed in part for rising brand drug list prices and...
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- Mar 30
- 2 min
National Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Congressional Efforts to Hold PBMs Accountable
Bipartisan Respondents Strongly Favor Policies that Require PBMs to Provide Value and Lower Drug Costs PBM Accountability Project With...
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- Mar 9
- 2 min
NACDS Praises New Congressional Investigation of PBMs
U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee expands bipartisan Congressional push to stop pharmaceutical benefit manipulation by...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
APhA releases survey results quantifying the impact of PBMs
American Pharmacists Association PBM reform efforts have long been keystone issues for APhA’s members. In support of renewed interest in...
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- Mar 4
- 4 min
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Put in Crosshairs of Drug Price Fight
House probe requests data from top PBMs, Broad supply chain transparency needed, analysts say Bloomberg Law A House investigation into...
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- Mar 1
- 4 min
Private Health Care Companies Are Eating the American Economy
A new report from Wendell Potter at the Center for Health and Democracy examines just how the private insurance market makes its...
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- Feb 27
- 2 min
Workplace health plans pay up to 30 times more than Medicare for specialty drugs
Policies to reduce employer-sponsored insurance prices for physician-administered drugs are needed because they threaten access to...
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- Feb 24
- 2 min
Senate bill aims to crack down on how drug company ‘middlemen’ negotiate prices
Yahoo News It’s something many people have likely never heard of, but they play a big role in how much money you pay for prescription...
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- Feb 16
- 7 min
Patients needing home IV nutrition fear dangerous shortages
The Washington Post The fear started when patients saw their nurses and dietitians posting job searches on LinkedIn. Word spread to...
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- Feb 7
- 2 min
Oklahoma Pharmacy Board unanimously approves new rules for shipping mail-order medications
Oklahoma KFOR News The Oklahoma Pharmacy Board unanimously approved new rules Wednesday that would regulate how Oklahomans receive...
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- Jan 31
- 8 min
A decade-long battle over Medicare Advantage audits is coming to a head
‘Everybody has blood on their hands’ STAT News The federal government and health insurance companies have been clashing for more than a...
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- Jan 23
- 3 min
It is Time for Policymakers to Protect Patients from Predatory Practices of Insurers and PBMs
Healthcare Business Today Although per capita patient out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on prescription medications has dropped, averages are...
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