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May 9, 2022
ICYMI | Grassley Press Release on Senate Commerce Committee Hearing
ICYMI | Grassley’s Leadership Recognized Multiple Times During Commerce Committee Hearing On Prescription Drug Pricing Reform WASHINGTON...
May 6, 2022
Highlights from Senate hearing on pharmacy benefit managers' role in drug prices
A U.S. Senate panel grilled secretive pharmacy benefit managers in a hearing Thursday on how to bring fairness and transparency to U.S....
May 5, 2022
Senators decry lack of 'sunlight' on PBM processes, push for reforms in transparency
Several bipartisan senators are clamoring for more transparency into how pharmacy benefit managers conduct their business, potentially...
May 4, 2022
Understanding where your money goes beyond the pharmacy counter
Where are the mystery costs your pharmacy absorbs and how does it affect your drugs and price? Key stakeholders share their expertise...
May 3, 2022
2021 Janssen Transparency Report
Our responsibility as a leader in the healthcare system is to bring forward actionable ideas, data and insights to help create a...
Apr 26, 2022
Can billionaire celebrity Mark Cuban fix America’s broken health system?
The celebrity investor has teamed up with a soft-spoken radiologist to tackle the USA’s healthcare crisis – and he has drug industry...
Apr 20, 2022
How to protect consumers from PBM greed
The rising cost of health care is a sore point for all consumers and nowhere is it more glaring than at the pharmacy counter. However,...
Apr 20, 2022
UnitedHealth Inflated Drug Costs, Louisiana Attorney General Alleges in Suit
UnitedHealth Group Inc. was accused by Louisiana’s attorney general of inflating prescription drug charges in the state’s Medicaid...
Apr 19, 2022
Hospitals' massive cancer drug markups
The prices that private insurers agree to pay hospitals for cancer drugs are often at least double what the hospital paid to acquire the...
Apr 18, 2022
Howard Dean: It’s time to crack down on the middlemen that inflate the costs of drugs like insulin
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock just introduced a bill that would cap Americans’ out-of-pocket spending on insulin at $35 a month. The...
Apr 11, 2022
Rein In Profiteering by Drug-Industry Middlemen
The Federal Trade Commission recently requested public comments on the effect of drug-industry middlemen on drug affordability and...
Mar 30, 2022
A new federal framework to improve patient access and health equity
With its landscape focus on reducing the excess burden of disease in vulnerable populations, the Biden administration has clearly renewed...
Mar 24, 2022
AMAC Supports Bill to Study PBM Business Practices
“Among other provisions, this bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a study and report to Congress on the...
Mar 17, 2022
Sen. Wyden urges CMS to apply pharmacy fees at point of sale to lower drug costs
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to finalize the proposal that applies all...
Mar 11, 2022
More than $300 Billion in Health Care Spending Goes to Middlemen. We Need Accountability.
Too many people go to the pharmacy counter only to be told the cost of their prescription medicine has gone up. Again. It’s maddening at...
Mar 7, 2022
Pharmacy Agent Study Would Show Role in Drug Price ‘Dysfunction’
The Federal Trade Commission could help shed light on the complex practices of pharmacy liaisons that have long faced criticism for...
Mar 4, 2022
FTC wants to know: How are PBMs affecting drug affordability and access?
Following the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to not, at least initially, dig deeper into pharma middlemen known as PBMs, the...
Mar 3, 2022
The Driver Dictating Prescription Drug Benefits: PBMs Explained
Pharmacy benefit managers — liaisons between pharmaceutical companies and health insurers that run patients’ prescription benefits — are...
Feb 25, 2022
FTC seeks public comments on pharmacy benefit managers' impact on patients, pharmacies
The request for information comes on the heels of the FTC's failed bid to launch a formal inquiry into PBM practices that would have...
Feb 22, 2022
Vertical integration secures PBMs as ‘arsonists and firefighters’ of drug prices
In the last 4 years, the three biggest pharmacy benefit managers have consolidated influence in the U.S. health care marketplace through...
Feb 18, 2022
COA 2022 PBM Dirty Tricks Exposé Report
New Report from the Community Oncology Alliance studies "How PBMs Adversely Impact Cancer Care While Profiting at the Expense of...
Jan 28, 2022
PBMS: WHEN YOU’RE BUYING MEDS THEY GET THE REBATES, YOU GET THE SHAFT
Last week a pharmaceutical industry expert named Antonio Ciaccia, testified in front of the Indiana General Assembly about a bill that...
Jan 21, 2022
Trends in Pricing and Out-of-Pocket Spending on Entecavir Among Commercially Insured Patients
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) causes significant liver-related morbidity and mortality. Treatment of CHB is cost-effective in the US;...
Jan 20, 2022
Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with...
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