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 ...

Abelson and Robbins found numerous instances where pharmacy benefit managers created a business environment inhospitable to many local independently-owned pharmacies. The reporters discovered ...

Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...

At the top of the list are pharmacy benefit managers and the roadblocks they create for patients to access and afford necessary medications. Fortunately, since my diagnosis of Sjogren's disease, there ...

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

One exception that enjoys bipartisan support, however, is the effort to rehab the drug supply chain. It’s currently dominated ...

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

“The traditional pharmacy, the dispensing model is not gonna survive,” McDonough said. While pharmacy closures are an obvious challenge to patient access, he says some pharmacies are reducing hours or ...

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 ...

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