Florida demands patient names, prescriptions from drug middlemen
The Office of Insurance Regulation is demanding the unusual trove of data from pharmacy benefit managers — health care ...
Employers Get Big Drug Discounts Through Program For Hospitals That Serve Poor Patients
The government program, known as 340B, allows hospitals that care for many uninsured and low-income patients to purchase ...
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I’m a healthcare CEO who has fought medication middlemen. Then my daughter’s condition made it personal.
HIV and other life-saving drugs. Even while under federal investigation, the FTC report shows how these middlemen generated $7.3 billion in revenue from 2017 to 2022 by steering patients toward ...
The drugstore industry is struggling. Here’s what could be in its future.
Nearly a third of the U.S. retail pharmacies that were open from 2010 to 2020 had shuttered by 2021, study finds.
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Independent pharmacists blame ‘medical middlemen’ for soaring drug costs, pharmacy closures
(InvestigateTV) — If you have trouble affording prescription drugs, some independent pharmacists say that so-called “pharmacy middlemen” are partially to blame. A handful of pharmacy benefit ...
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Colorado’s rural pharmacies are struggling. Lawmakers think they have a solution
David Bonfiglio’s small town pharmacy is getting busier and busier, but staff and revenue are shrinking. With low ...
CT legislators take aim at high cost of prescription drugs. What to know.
Bill would rein in “pharmacy benefit managers,” or PBMs, which have come under fire for driving up prescription drug costs ...
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Florida's insurance regulator demands detailed prescription drug data
IN 2023. GOVERNOR DESANTIS SIGNED LEGISLATION HE SAID WAS AIMED AT HOLDING PRESCRIPTION DRUG MIDDLEMEN ACCOUNTABLE BY STOPPING THEM FROM CHARGING MORE FOR A PRESCRIPTION THAN IT COSTS AND KEEPING ...
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Independent pharmacists blame ‘medical middlemen’ for soaring drug costs, pharmacy closures
(InvestigateTV) — If you have trouble affording prescription drugs, some independent pharmacists say that so-called “pharmacy middlemen” are partially to blame. A handful of pharmacy benefit ...