Pharmacy benefit manager reform bill advances for committee vote
The bill would allow pharmacies to decline dispensing prescriptions to people if that pharmacy would be reimbursed less than ...
AAHC voices concerns over 2 bills addressing regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Two bills now in the state Senate would clamp down on Pharmacy Benefit Managers, a kind of intermediary between drug ...
Pharmacy benefit management unicorn Capital Rx hits $3.5 billion in revenue with a different approach to drug pricing as Congress targets middlemen
Healthcare startup Capital Rx seeing revenue surge as Congress seeks to regulate the PBM giants that profit from high drug ...
Iowa lawmakers target prescription drug prices, pharmacy reimbursements with 'PBM' bills
The bill's supporters framed it as part of the solution to addressing both high drug prices and slowing the pace of pharmacy ...
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Kansas pharmacists ask lawmakers for help as pharmacies across the state continue to close
Pharmacists in Kansas say pharmacy benefit managers, a group that helps determine what medications insurance covers and how ...
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Pharmacists ask for lawmakers to pass bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers
Iowa pharmacists and advocates said Wednesday lawmakers need to pass legislation regulating pharmacy benefit managers, the third-party companies that negotiate prescription prices between health ...
Man dies of asthma attack after inhaler cost skyrockets to more than $500
United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s ‘life-changing’ inhaler, suit ...
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Bill in Iowa legislature proposes new rules for Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Pharmacists are praising a bill under consideration in the Iowa House and Senate that would set new restrictions on pharmacy ...
What to know about the 22-year-old Wisconsin man who died after his inhaler price spiked to $539
Diagnosed with asthma as a baby, Cole Schmidtknecht took the inhaler daily as a preventive medication since he was about 13, ...
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Iowa lawmakers target prescription drug prices, pharmacy reimbursements with 'PBM' bills
At a news conference, pharmacists held signs reading "PBM reform now" and "patients ... That's in part because they say pharmacy benefit managers, known as PBMs, don't always reimburse pharmacies ...