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Are Rhode Island insurers doing enough to help curb rising health...

Hospital and drug costs accounted for most of the 7.8% rise in health care spending in the state in 2023, according to a May...

Louisiana AG investigating CVS for sending mass text messages lobbying against...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday she is investigating whether pharmaceutical giant CVS Health Corp. improperly used customers' personal...
THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION said in its report “Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies” that PBMs “wield enormous power over patients’ ability to access and afford their prescription drugs, allowing PBMs to significantly influence what drugs are available and at what price.” / AP FILE PHOTO/CHRIS CARLSON

FTC criticizes ‘enormous power’ of pharmacy benefit managers in scathing report

PROVIDENCE – Drug middlemen are hurting small, independent pharmacies while reaping huge profits by inflating drug prices, according to a Federal Trade Commission staff...

Mass. AG reaches $6.1M settlement with CVS on workers’ compensation drug...

BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said Monday that she's reached a $6.1 million settlement with CVS Health Corp. to resolve allegations the...
PRESCRIPTION DRUG costs for some seniors on Medicare are expected to significantly jump next year due to an expiring element of the Affordable Care Act. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/DHIRAJ SINGH

Drug costs for some U.S. seniors to rise by hundreds of...

NEW YORK – Senior citizens with high prescription drug costs are facing hundreds of dollars in additional expenses next year, according to a new...

Prescription drug costs a crime

President Donald Trump has complained that U.S. drug companies are “getting away with murder.” For once the hyperbole is forgivable: It suggests he takes...
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