Purpose: The difference between what pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs) charge prescription benefit plan sponsors and what dispensing pharmacies are paid ("spread") was studied.

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 ...

Three Milwaukee Walgreens stores have closed or plan to close in November and December of this year as part of a nationwide ...

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At the top of the list are pharmacy benefit managers and the roadblocks they create for patients to access and afford necessary medications. Fortunately, since my diagnosis of Sjogren's disease, there ...

However, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) often interfere, pushing independent pharmacies into unfair contracts that threaten their businesses. These contracts frequently force pharmacies to ...

States may be getting ready to crack down even harder on pharmacy benefit managers. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will be giving member regulators a crash course on PBM policy ...

The Iowa Pharmacy Association blames middlemen that are called Pharmacy Benefit Managers. If a pharmacy accepts insurance, which is almost all patients, they have to deal with Pharmacy Benefit ...

CerpassRx, a leader in pharmacy benefit management (PBM), today announced the launch of the Intelligent Specialty Engine, an AI-enabled platform powered by Waltz Health to manage specialty drug spend.

Experts say pharmacy benefit managers are what's driving drugstores out of business. Carol Vaughan, a 62-year-old uninsured patient in Kansas City, said it was "difficult" after the Duchesne ...

said the low payments for drugs by pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, and requirements that many patients use mail order or chain pharmacies are the main reasons for shuttering the stores.