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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Good morning, and TGIF. With the 118th Congress winding down, what issues do you hope lawmakers will tackle next session? Send thoughts to [email protected]. Today’s edition: Vice ...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country. Credit...Jens Mortensen for The New ...

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

A national representative for pharmacy benefit managers said Tuesday a proposed rule requiring higher reimbursements to pharmacies would lead to an increase in health insurance premiums. The ...

The executive called for a realignment of incentives so that pharmacy benefit managers are not pushing branded medications. But simply switching from branded to generic medications is a “Band ...