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PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51.
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their ...
CVS, Ex-Cigna Executive Ask to Shorten Ban on Starting New Role
CVS Pharmacy Inc. and the former president of Cigna Corp.'s Express Scripts asked a federal judge to amend an injunction ...
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Post-election prescription: Why Trump’s return could disrupt pharma
From drug pricing to reforming the drug regulatory process, Trump’s re-election has plenty of implications for the pharma ...
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Commentary: Pharmacy benefit managers are a roadblock to affordable medications
But today, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana, Prime Therapeutics and MedImpact — manage nearly 95% of all prescriptions ...
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Optum audit shows possible law violation, lower payments to independent pharmacies
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 ...
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Pharmacy Benefit Manager math: Big chains paid $23.55 to fill a blood pressure Rx. Small drugstores paid $1.51
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 ...
Blue Shield Of California Push For Cheaper Biosimilars Could Disrupt Market
Blue Shield of Calif. is bypassing traditional pharmacy benefit managers to bring a Humira-referenced biosimilar, Idacio, to ...
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Lawsuits Say GoodRx, PBMs Quash Reimbursements To Small Pharmacies
CVS Caremark and Express Scripts, along with GoodRx and others, are accused of working together to suppress reimbursements to independent pharmacies in at least three class-action lawsuits. Also, Hims ...
Dave says FTC action ‘another example of regulatory overreach’
As we disclosed in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2024, we have been cooperating with the FTC in response to a Civil Investigative Demand seeking ...
How Lina Khan Became an Election Hot Topic
The Federal Trade Commission chair drew increasing political vitriol as the presidential vote neared. Her political future ...
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Justice Department antitrust division looking at health care conglomerates, pharmacy drug middlemen
Each of the big three — CVS, United Health and Cigna/Express Scripts — owns mail-order pharmacies and CVS ... Those actions ...
Kroger agrees to pay up to $1.4 billion to settle opioid lawsuits
One of the nation's largest grocery chains is the latest company to agree to settle lawsuits over the U.S. opioid crisis.