The conclusion of the longest government shutdown in history and rising political acrimony rightly receives a great deal of attention but this focus makes it easy to overlook areas where beneficial ...

Bipartisan policies in Congress meant to lower drug costs by targeting middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain are likely to run up against a fundamental issue: the three major pharmacy benefit ...

In a conversation hosted by DSN, EmpiRx Health CEO Danny Sanchez and EmpiRx Health President John Ridyard detailed how their mid-market PBM is gaining traction by putting pharmacists at the center of ...

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a bill barring pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate ...

Vertical integration and limited PBM competition can distort formulary placement incentives, enabling rebate-driven list price inflation while obscuring true net costs from employers, pharmacies, and ...

Pharmacy benefit manufacturers complicate the drug pricing system and drive up out-of-pocket costs for patients, according to a new report from Pacific Research Institute. For the report, the Pacific ...

If lawmakers want to make pharmaceuticals more affordable, they should look past populist policies like price controls that will only make matters worse and set their sights on reforming the Pharmacy ...

Some employers and health systems in North Carolina are looking to change how they manage prescription drug benefits for their employees. More employers are considering alternative pharmacy benefit ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Independent pharmacies across Illinois are breathing easier as the Illinois legislature throws a lifeline with a bipartisan bill reforming Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs.