The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) owned by UnitedHealth ($UNH), CVS Health ...
Ron Wyden says Elon Musk, an advisor to President Donald Trump who's on track to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, pushed the PBM provisions out of the package. The new American ...
“PBM tactics inflate American’s prescription drug costs, force pharmacy closures, and block access to Americans’ pharmacies of choice. The work done by Congress in the 118th Congress and in ...
House Republicans have abandoned language to rein in the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry from a new government funding bill released late Thursday. Leaders earlier this week agreed to PBM ...
Performance improvement plans generally specify particular performance benchmarks that employees are ... [+] expected to achieve within a designated period, usually ranging from 30 to 90 days ...
Based on conversations with industry expects, the Act, while incremental, does not include any adverse new ideas that would materially harm PBM profits, and the text allows enough room and time ...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have abandoned an effort to include reforms to pharmacy benefit managers in an end-of-year bill to fund the federal government. Congressional leaders had reached ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association says that a continuing resolution that Congress is readying includes provisions for two of its top priorities for reforming pharmacy ...
One section would require a PBM serving a large fully insured or large self-insured employer health plan to pass 100% of any prescription drug rebates or other discounts on to an employer plan's ...
Lewandowski charges in her lawsuit that by contracting with the PBM Express Scripts, which is part of the insurance giant Cigna, Johnson & Johnson — which fired her in April — failed in its duty to ...
Currently, PBMs frequently retain a percentage of rebates paid to them by pharmaceutical companies in return for placing their drugs on the PBM’s formulary. The higher the list price of a drug ...
said today that community pharmacies are on the verge of groundbreaking and desperately needed PBM reform, as Congress readies a continuing resolution that includes two of the organization’s top ...