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Oklahoma proposes landmark rule to keep mailed medications safe from extreme temperatures
There is little regulation of how pharmacies ship drugs to patients, though extremes of hot or cold can make medicine unsafe or...
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A Stethoscope for Spending: Transparency for PBMs
Real Clear Health At its invention, the stethoscope was revolutionary—the first non-lethal way of exploring a patient’s internal anatomy....
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What the Inflation Reduction Act means for PBMs
Modern Healthcare The sweeping law President Joe Biden enacted Tuesday offers relief to some presciption drug users, but the pharmacy...
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Lowering insulin’s cost becomes political football
Yet Democrats and Republicans agree something must be done The Gazette Insulin has become the poster-child drug when it comes to the...
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FTC Caught in Balancing Act With Pharmacy Benefit Manager Probe
PBM group says independent pharmacies are ‘stable’ ‘Need to understand’ what’s happening with drug supply chain, consumer costs Bloomberg...
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The Cantwell-Grassley PBM Bill Is Much Needed But More Can Be Done
Health Affairs Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently introduced legislation that aims to shed light on...
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Seeking to Kick-Start Biden’s Agenda, Schumer Unveils a Bill for Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
Kaiser Health News Democratic senators on Wednesday took a formal step toward reviving President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, starting...
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8 in 10 registered voters support requiring insurance & PBMs to share rebates directly with patients
A new PhRMA/Ipsos poll finds that there is wide support for policies that require health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers...
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Lawmakers ask GAO to probe pharmacy benefit managers over their role in drug pricing
STAT News Amid intensifying scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers, a group of House Republicans is urging the U.S. Government...
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Federal Trade Commission And Congress Want To Rein In PBMs
Forbes Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Congress want to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), as they focus on alleged...
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New Senate bill aims to empower FTC to crack down on PBMs
New bipartisan legislation hopes to ban a pharmacy benefit manager practice that enables PBMs to claw back reimbursements to pharmacies....
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Provider status is very necessary for pharmacists (and I will argue with AMA later on this)
James Lott, CEO of Script Health in Chicago, strongly favors the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, the bill that...
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Oklahoma pharmacist: 'I can tell you the system is broken'
The Oklahoman When Oklahomans step up to my pharmacy counter, it’s usually because something is wrong. There is chronic disease, pain and...
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Bipartisan pressure may prompt Federal Trade Commission to investigate drug middlemen
The Columbus Dispatch For consumer advocates who contend that only the federal government has a hammer big enough to rein in...
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This Federal Law Will Completely Overhaul Company Health Benefits. Nobody Is Ready.
Forbes Most employers have no idea whether they get value for the money they spend on health benefits. Employers rarely see data on the...
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers Licensing and Compliance Developments
The National Law Review In response to calls for greater transparency in the prescription drug industry, 2021 continued a nationwide...
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Reducing Prescription Drug Prices
The Daily Sentinel This year, we are finally making progress in our efforts to bring down the cost of prescription drugs for Ohio...
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