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'Hitting a new crisis': Pharmacies feel pressure of low reimbursements; Mainline bowing out
Yahoo News Wondering where he could get prescription diabetic shoes after his neighborhood Davidsville Mainline Pharmacy closes, Jim Carr...

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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
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Independent pharmacists fight burnout and industry pressures as Rite Aid and CVS close stores
The Times-Tribune Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he...

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The Albatross Around America’s Neck: How health-care opacity neutralizes competition and fuels a corporate race to corner health-care markets
HEALTH CARE un-covered Authors: WENDELL POTTER & BRIAN KLEPPER Consolidating and cornering health-care markets In November, Optum...

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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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2024: A Pivotal Year in Curbing Pharmacy Costs
2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs. MedCity News 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the...

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Local pharmacy owner, patient share concerns over relationships between PBMs and insurance companies
Fox News 2 For nearly 30 years, Betty Whitcomb’s trusted this independently owned pharmacy in Overland for her pills. “He just lets me...

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Have You Been Overcharged for Prescription Drugs? We Want to Hear From You.
The New York Times is looking into pharmacy benefit managers, which play crucial roles in determining which medications your insurance...

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NYC Transit Retirees WIN Important Battle Against Medicare Advantage Push
TWU Local 100 retirees fighting to retain their traditional Medicare Benefits were dismissed back in October — this week, they won a...

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The looming pharmacy crisis in America | NPR's On Point
To listen to this news interview on NPR, click here Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point....

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How Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
Oregon Live | Business When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones would not subside, his doctor had a hunch what was wrong....

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Ohio pharmacy board members seem skeptical of CVS claims
Ohio Capital Journal A disciplinary hearing related to understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Ohio didn’t come to a conclusion...

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HHS 'copay accumulator' rule struck down: Insurers must now count copay assistance
In a big victory for patients who depend on prescription drugs, a federal judge struck down a 2021 HHS rule that allowed health insurers...

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Letters scare local Medicare patients
WAND News Two local pharmacies have been fielding dozens of phone calls after a pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, sent out...

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Court strikes down Trump-era rule that allowed health insurers to broadly use copay accumulators
STAT+ A U.S. judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that allowed health insurers not to count copay assistance offered by drug...

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Generic Drugs Should Be Cheap, but Insurers Are Charging Thousands of Dollars for Them
Health insurers mark up prices of generics for cancer, multiple sclerosis and other complicated diseases The Wall Street Journal The...

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It’s time to put patients before middlemen and reform the PBM industry
The Hill | Opinion When it comes to the alphabet soup of acronyms in health care, it can be hard to keep up. Whether it is the difference...

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Drug Prices Are Too Damn High
It's been a long road to Medicare price negotiation ... and there's still work to be done MedPage Today Remember the "Rent is Too Damn...

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It’s Time To End the PBM Shakedown
Forbes Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the House and Senate, members of both parties are advancing legislation to check the power of...

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