Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, are meant to act as a middleman between drug manufacturers and insurance companies, with ...

The bill's supporters framed it as part of the solution to addressing both high drug prices and slowing the pace of pharmacy ...

Although the entire transmission process for a prescription claim from the time a pharmacist transmits it to the time the pharmacy receives payment authorization from the PBM on behalf of the ...

Purpose: The difference between what pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs) charge prescription benefit plan sponsors and what dispensing pharmacies are paid ("spread") was studied.

Utility Warehouse (UW) has more than 1 million customers across the services it sells. Its customers get all of its services bundled into one bill. This is its first year as a Which? Recommended ...

Broader health insurance and PBM sector stocks including Centene, CVS, Elevance Health and Humana decline as investors react to market. What To Know: UnitedHealth, the largest health insurer in ...

Federal bill looks to protect Arkansas health care patients & pharmacies from PBM overpricing If it passes both the House and Senate, the act will go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. It was not on the ...

The study—authorized by the three Democratic and two Republican commissioners—involved pharmacy benefit management firms Express Scripts, OptumRx and Caremark. In a 45-page administrative ...

with its focus set to shift from empire building to positioning the firm to become greater than the sum of its parts. Steps SLC is taking now toward that end include a greater sales and ...

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released its second interim report on Jan. 14, 2025, accusing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) of marking up the prices of specialty generic drugs.

Records show funding went toward clearing brush with goats, repaving and other projects in sparsely populated parts of the state. Since 2021, state authorities have repeatedly declined to fund ...

The price concessions from the pharmacy come from lower contracted rates that pharmacies must accept in order to participate in the PBM’s pharmacy ... retail store churn. Retail churn is a ...