Wyden and Brown Urge FTC to Investigate Emerging Anti-Competitive Practices by PBMs
As Congress and FTC Continue to Investigate and Address the Role of Pharma Middlemen in High Drug Costs, Leading Senators Highlight...
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- Sep 11
Ohio pharmacy leader says recent mass closures are a warning
The closure of hundreds of pharmacies by two major chains might be too big a phenomenon to compare to a canary in a coal mine. But a...
- Aug 7
Pharmacy middlemen face new allegations of skimming
It was always the suspicion. When shadowy pharmacy middlemen started in 2019 to create yet another layer of middlemen, critics suspected...
- Jul 26
Drug middlemen say Pharma sets prices. Then why do middlemen have hundreds for the same drug?
Pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers deny claims that they’re responsible for the inflating cost of medicine. They say...
- Jul 23
Pharmacy closures multiply, threatening to create health care deserts
Closures come as regulators warn of anticompetitive conglomerates This far-flung town in southern Nebraska has an advantage its neighbors...
- Jul 9
Federal regulator: Pharmacy middlemen appear to be raising prices, hurting patients
The federal trade watchdog on Tuesday released an interim report saying that sprawling health care conglomerates are driving out...
- Apr 26
Mark Cuban has a simple question for CVS’s drug middleman: Why don’t you publish your prices?
Businessman and TV personality Mark Cuban has a seemingly straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned by CVS: If you’re as...
- Feb 24
State attorneys general urge PBM reform
The letter, sent on behalf of 39 state attorneys general to leaders in Congress, comes as lawmakers consider legislation to...
- Feb 15
What Ohio leaders are doing to fight increasing costs for prescription drugs
Prescription drug prices are continuously increasing. The Insulin Reduction Act, passed by Congress in 2022, caps insulin copays at $35...
- Feb 7
Contractor for WV public employees system pays itself way more for some drugs than necessary
Ohio has filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the drug middleman company Express Scripts. Express Scripts, the company that handles...
- Feb 2
Ohio antitrust suit against drug middlemen hovers between courts
A lawsuit accusing huge health care companies of colluding to jack up prices is stalled as the sides fight over which court should hear...
- Jan 17
Ohio Attorney General asks that CVS store be put on probation “for a period of years”
A deputy attorney general working for the Ohio Board of Pharmacy on Thursday recommended that the board fine CVS and place a store it...
- Dec 1, 2023
What are pharmacy benefit managers, and why are...Ohio and the city of Cleveland suing them?
They oversee and negotiate how much you and your insurance spend on prescriptions, but are pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) just adding...
- Nov 9, 2023
Ohio pharmacy board members seem skeptical of CVS claims
A disciplinary hearing related to understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Ohio didn’t come to a conclusion Wednesday. But members of the...
- Nov 9, 2023
CVS disciplinary hearing before Ohio Board of Pharmacy begins
Things grew so bad at one severely understaffed CVS store in 2021 that a technician was accosted by irate customers in the parking lot...
- Sep 13, 2023
Congressional watchdog: Rebates increase drug costs for seniors
A system of kickbacks between drugmakers and drug middlemen is increasing costs for seniors on Medicare, the U.S. Government...
- Aug 3, 2023
Problems at understaffed CVS pharmacies are said to be widespread. The Ohio AG is taking a look
In the wake of news about Ohio regulators’ findings at severely understaffed CVS pharmacies, numerous current and recent CVS workers in...
- Jul 14, 2023
“Corners are cut to dispense prescriptions,” CVS employee tells Ohio Board of Pharmacy
After years of buying and closing competitors, CVS understaffing leads to chaos and delays, Ohio regulator says At least eight CVS...
- May 31, 2023
Federal authorities move to close mammoth drug-pricing loophole
Years after the potential for abuse was flagged in Ohio, the federal agency that oversees Medicaid is moving to close a loophole that...
- May 19, 2023
Policing drug price middlemen’s middlemen
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced that it had added massive, new drug-purchasers to an investigation into the practices...
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