For example, if a pharmacist incorrectly ... entities like insurance companies and TPAs often outsource the management of pharmacy benefits to one of the major PBMs. [27] TPAs are independent ...

As PBM services have traditionally been dominated by large companies such as CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx, health systems are starting to create alternatives. Here are four more things to ...

Pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts unveiled several steps it's taking to boost transparency and mitigate high ...

Years of dominance by the three major vertically integrated pharmacy benefit managers that control ... can create big economic disruptions. For example, if an employer wants to carve out their ...

Iowa pharmacists and advocates said Wednesday lawmakers need to pass legislation regulating pharmacy benefit managers, the third-party companies that negotiate prescription prices between health ...

The bill would allow pharmacies to decline dispensing prescriptions to people if that pharmacy would be reimbursed less than ...

Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, are meant to act as a middleman between drug manufacturers and insurance companies, with ...

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 ...

Investors’ reaction to Trump’s press conference is another example of ... The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, whose members include many major pharmacy benefit managers, said ...