Tag: pharmacy benefit managers
CVS, Express Scripts sue Arkansas over restriction on pharmacy benefit managers
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – CVS Health Corp. and Express Scripts have asked a federal judge to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from...
Do you support Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s major proposals to...
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on May 28 announced a package of legislative proposals and other initiatives to help the state’s ailing primary care...
Legislation would restrict ‘spread pricing’ on meds
While prescription drug costs have been steadily increasing, the reimbursements paid to the pharmacies have been decreasing.
The math isn’t adding up.
But this contradiction is...
New R.I. law protects patients who rely on specialty infusion drugs
Specialty drugs might come in a delicate glass vial in the mail, shipped by a specialty pharmacy in a styrofoam carton cushioned with ice...
Opinion: CVS’ drug-price plan lets pharma off too easy
NEW YORK - The pharmacy benefit management business is under attack. And these middlemen of the arcane United States drug-pricing system are preparing their...
Trump plan to lower drug prices moves forward on several fronts
NEW YORK - The Trump administration moved swiftly in the past 24 hours to implement pieces of its plan to bring down drug prices, taking...
Trump health secretary says drugmakers must help cut prices
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s top health official said the administration plans to turn up the heat on the pharmaceutical industry if it doesn’t...
Partners turned into prey as insurers, drug plans get squeezed
NEW YORK – Over 20 years, Brian Komoto built a thriving pharmacy in California’s Central Valley. Each day, his nurses would travel the vast...
`Rigged’ system blocks use of lower-cost drugs, FDA chief says
WASHINGTON – A “rigged payment scheme” between drug plans, insurers and pharmaceutical companies has blocked access to less-expensive versions of some of the most costly drugs...
Drug middlemen have slim profit margins — Just ask them
NEW YORK - Companies of all kinds try to present their financial results in the best light possible to attract investors. One segment of the...
