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 ...

Bipartisan policies in Congress meant to lower drug costs by targeting middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain are likely to run up against a fundamental issue: the three major pharmacy benefit ...

In a conversation hosted by DSN, EmpiRx Health CEO Danny Sanchez and EmpiRx Health President John Ridyard detailed how their mid-market PBM is gaining traction by putting pharmacists at the center of ...

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a bill barring pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate ...

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said last week that it’s expanding its investigation into the role of pharmacy benefit managers by seeking information about how they use foreign ...

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 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund. Articles in this topic offer timely ...

While drug prices keep climbing, states like Arkansas target the only actors with the power to curb them: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). But by passing laws like Act 624, legislators risk doing the ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Independent pharmacies across Illinois are breathing easier as the Illinois legislature throws a lifeline with a bipartisan bill reforming Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs.

Some employers and health systems in North Carolina are looking to change how they manage prescription drug benefits for their employees. More employers are considering alternative pharmacy benefit ...

Michael Brixius is a pharmacist and the current Story County GOP organizational chair. Iowa’s community pharmacies — the lifeblood of our small towns — are in crisis. Since 2014, over 200 pharmacies ...