Purpose: The difference between what pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs ... of this discrepancy and seek a more transparent contract with PBMs. The objective of our study was to determine ...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically ... To be included, a pharmacy must agree to a contract with the P.B.M. that details the formula for how much the pharmacy ...

Employers worried about lawsuits from workers charging they're not spending their health care dollars wisely are increasingly ...

Hired by insurance companies and employers to manage pharmacy ... new types of contract options that provide even more data ...

Although the entire transmission process for a prescription claim from the time a pharmacist transmits it to the time the pharmacy receives payment authorization from the PBM on behalf of the ...

The rebate game played by drug makers and pharmacy benefit managers limits optimal biosimilar competition. As a result, U.S.

But nothing will change until employee benefits managers and other decision-makers start asking tough questions of brokers during the process of evaluating a PBM. Look for the sentence in the contract ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.