This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their ...
The FTC's long-awaited report published in July was a difficult read for the PBM industry, concluding that the six largest companies in the US market operate a concentrated market structure that ...
“I’m proud that the FTC launched a bipartisan investigation into these shadowy middlemen, and its preliminary findings prove yet again that it’s time to bust up the PBM monopoly.” Eisai ...
FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan, with her fellow Democratic Commissioners, recently filed a suit against the leading PBMs in an effort to undermine, or even prohibit, their use of rebates to secure ...
Lindsay Bealor Greenleaf, JD, MBA, of ADVI Health, weighs in on what to expect in key health care policy areas in the wake of ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on September 27, 2024 unexpectedly withdrew from a recently established Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ...
Ohioans must recognize the threat that vertically-integrated insurance conglomerates pose to our health and pocketbooks.
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy ...
One exception that enjoys bipartisan support, however, is the effort to rehab the drug supply chain. It’s currently dominated ...
The usual PBM strategy cuts an independent pharmacy's share of the prescription revenue to just 3 cents per pill dispensed, ...
The PBM profit "is going to line people's pockets ... Bell's Family Pharmacy closed earlier this year. The FTC sued three of the largest PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx, which ...
Nationally, criticism of PBM practices intensified over the summer with the FTC report. The PCMA pushed back, saying the report "is based on anecdotes and comments from anonymous sources and self ...