Federal and state actions seek transparency and fair reimbursements from pharmacy benefit managers, as rural communities lose local drugstores.

CVS Health is effectively telling Tennessee lawmakers, “Nice pharmacy bill you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to 134 stores.” The company says a proposal targeting pharmacy benefit managers ...

Vertical integration and limited PBM competition can distort formulary placement incentives, enabling rebate-driven list price inflation while obscuring true net costs from employers, pharmacies, and ...

Compensation reforms prohibit price- or rebate-linked PBM revenue in Part D, pushing flat service-fee models and broadly capturing affiliates such as rebate GPOs and aggregators. Reform priorities aim ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers is advancing legislation through this year's General Assembly aimed at reducing ...

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson met with independent pharmacists to discuss their concerns over PBMs. Pharmacy Business Managers are the middlemen in the pharmaceutical ...

Jeremy Olum's sons are battling cystic fibrosis, *** rare disease with *** daunting regimen. Just seeing young children with handfuls of pills that they have to take in order to survive is *** pretty ...

The Department of Labor wants to force pharmacy benefit managers to share more information about their compensation and business practices with their employer clients, in the latest bet from the Trump ...