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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill aiming to crack down on drug middlemen as scrutiny ramps up
Bipartisan lawmakers introduced a new bill that aims to crack down on the business practices of drug supply chain middlemen who allegedly...
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Spanberger Joins More Than 20 Colleagues in a Bipartisan, Bicameral Effort Urging the Defense Health Agency to Increase Oversight of Its Exclusive Contract with Express Scripts
Insurance NewsNet U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger joined a bipartisan group of more than 20 U.S. House and U.S. Senate colleagues...
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Independent pharmacists start ads asking Congress for relief from PBMs, ask Supreme Court to hear a case
Northern Kentucky Tribune Independent community pharmacists have begun an advertising campaign to get Congress to rein in pharmacy...
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Impact: Beware This Faustian Deal
RealClear Health The Biden administration is moving forward with a process that represents a sea change in how Medicare pays for drugs....
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PBM executives invited to testify before House panel
STAT+ Executives from the three major pharmacy benefit manager companies have been invited to testify before the House Committee on...
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Lawmakers slam UnitedHealth chief over Change Healthcare attack
Modern Healthcare UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty endured withering criticism from lawmakers Wednesday as Congress held a pair of...
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Congress Has A Big Chance To Investigate A Financial Threat To Patients
Forbes Following an enormous cyberattack on a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the Senate Finance Committee has called the company's...
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The federal government will soon announce its payment rates and policy changes for the Medicare Advantage program. Here's how you can influence their decision.
In the coming days, the federal government will announce whether big health insurers that run the private Medicare Advantage program will...
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Upended: Can PBM Transparency Succeed?
Simmering tensions in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry have turned into fault lines. The PBMs challenging the "big three"...
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White House Roundtable on Lowering Healthcare Costs and Bringing Transparency to Prescription Drug Middlemen
ICYMI: Watch It Now
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Scoop: Congress eyes narrow health package
Axios Pro Only a handful of health care provisions that mostly extend existing programs are likely to catch a ride on the next government...
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Coalition of AGs wants congressional action to reform pharmacy benefit managers
Augusta Free Press A bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general is encouraging Congress to take decisive action to reform the way...
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Bill would save Kentucky consumers money, help independent pharmacies survive, says sponsor
Kentucky Lantern Four years after leading the effort to cut corporate middlemen out of the prescription drug business for Kentucky’s...
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Strange bedfellows agree: PBM pricing reform cannot stop at Medicare, Medicaid
HEALTH CARE un-covered by Wendell Potter Regular readers of this newsletter know that pharmacy benefit managers have come to be an...
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How PBM legislation would transform the industry
Modern Healthcare The pharmacy benefit manager industry could look a lot different soon if Congress follows through with bipartisan...
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Feds drop appeal in drug copay assistance case
Modern Healthcare The federal government has dropped its appeal of a court decision that could affect health insurance companies' use of...
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Delaware committee advises against Medicare Advantage for state retirees
Becker's Payer Issues A state committee is recommending Delaware cast aside any plans to provide retired state employees health benefits...
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Tenth Circuit Decision on Regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers Remains in Place As Oklahoma Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
Duane Morris Law A decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which found that several provisions of an...
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California fines Anthem Blue Cross for slow provider payments
Becker's Payer Issues The California Department of Managed Health fined Anthem Blue Cross of California $690,000 for failure to reimburse...
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The House passed its health bill. How's the Senate doing?
Axios Pro The House's passage of its big health care transparency bill this week shifts the focus to the Senate, which will have to work...
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