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The largest pharmacy-benefit managers hiked the prices of dozens of drugs dispensed through their own pharmacies, according to a new...

From a humble base, it gobbled up big chunks of the U.S. health system, including doctor practices, pharmacy-benefits managers and...

Doug Dority, Chairman of the Board of the PBM Accountability Project, penned a letter today to House and Senate leadership urging...

Pharmacy benefit managers were under the microscope from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lawmakers and states in 2024. But outside of...

Cristi Waltz’s fight for her grandson’s medicine exposes the dark underbelly of pharmacy benefit managers — and why lawmakers on both...

The post-election lame duck session of Congress could be one of the most influential for consumers – if our elected officials are willing...

Middlemen negotiate prescription costs at thousands of different price points, depending on your insurance plan The cost of prescription...

The outcome of this election could turn health policy on its head, but one thing's fairly certain no matter who wins: PBMs will remain in...

More than half of insured Americans say they can't predict how much their covered prescription drugs will cost, according to an annual...

Cigna is reviving efforts to merge with Humana after talks fell apart late last year, Bloomberg News reported, quoting people familiar...

Mark Cuban is a man on a mission — to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, Cuban, the billionaire best known for his past...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts”...

One hurricane is enough to do it—to expose how fouled up our medical supply chain is. In the wake of  Helene , physicians and nurses in...

A recent Wall Street Journal editorial, “The FTC’s Anti-PBM Suit Could Mean Higher Health Premiums,” misses the mark on Pharmacy Benefit...

If it weren’t for Martin Shkreli, better known as the Pharma Bro, Mark Cuban might not have gone into the drug business. That’s what he...

New Lebanon, Ohio, population 3,756, has three dollar stores, a Groceryland grocery store, a few fast-food restaurants, a public library...

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit last month against the pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx...

As Congress and FTC Continue to Investigate and Address the Role of Pharma Middlemen in High Drug Costs, Leading Senators Highlight...

A top California health plan is set to offer one of the world’s biggest-selling drugs for free in a bid to show the medicine can reach...

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has vetoed CA SB966 , legislation which would increase transparency and accountability of pharmacy...

Make no mistake , our medicines, like everything else these days, cost far more than they should. Rather than acknowledging the actual...

The Federal Trade Commission last week filed a suit accusing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, of using their market...

The Federal Trade Commission sued the three dominant pharmacy-benefit managers in the United States, alleging they inflated the cost of...

The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin...