Pharmacy Benefit Managers [PBMs] are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health ...

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

Reilly added that prescription drugs have become a “profit center for different middlemen,” with PBMs taking approximately 40 cents of every dollar ... so that pharmacy benefit managers ...

TRICARE is coming under fire for its decision to renew a multibillion-dollar contract to Express ... the second-largest ...

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People living with lupus face many barriers to accessing quality, comprehensive, affordable healthcare. In recent years Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, have been driving up the cost of medications ...

Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While many healthcare providers believe that improving the patient financial experience is a critical step for their ...

Pharmaceuticals could be a multibillion dollar market opportunity for the e-commerce giant. The role of pharmacy benefit managers has become a political issue. Last year, Senator Bernie Sanders ...

Every Iowan has a vested interest in keeping prescription drugs affordable and accessible. Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), originally designed to add affordability and efficiency to the ...

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 ...

You probably have no idea who your pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) is. But you almost definitely have one. A pharmacy benefits manager is what it sounds like: PBMs manage prescription drug ...

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 ...