Therefore, entities like insurance companies and TPAs often outsource the management of pharmacy benefits to one of the major PBMs. [27] TPAs are independent benefit contractors that work with ...

The middlemen have been accused of helping drive up U.S. prescription drug prices, but the industry’s top lobbying group ...

People living with lupus face many barriers to accessing quality, comprehensive, affordable healthcare. In recent years Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, have been driving up the cost of medications ...

I visited a pharmacy earlier this year that is dispensing twice as many prescriptions as when they opened five years ago, but ...

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

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country. Credit...Jens Mortensen for The New ...

In a July 2022 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, The Value of Pharmacy Benefits Management, University of Chicago Economics Professor Cases Mulligan concluded that PBMs generate ...

You probably have no idea who your pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) is. But you almost definitely have one. A pharmacy benefits manager is what it sounds like: PBMs manage prescription drug ...

However, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) often interfere, pushing independent pharmacies into unfair contracts that threaten their businesses. These contracts frequently force pharmacies to ...

Joyner was previously the president of CVS Caremark, the company’s pharmacy benefits manager, and executive vice president of CVS Health. He’s spent most of his career at CVS and the companies ...

Capital Rx, the full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and pharmacy benefit administrator (PBA) advancing our nation's ...