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 ...

High prescription drug costs and pharmacies going out of business, especially in rural Iowa, have once again put pharmacy benefit managers— the companies that function as intermediaries between ...

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

Cigna has deleveraged substantially after acquiring Express Scripts in late 2018 when Cigna's debt rose to over $42 billion, or debt/capital of 51%. Management has made good progress on its ...

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

Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from charging insurers more for drugs than pharmacists are paid, a practice that can be used by the companies to inflate their profits. 2.

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 ...

A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that oversees pharmacy practice in Mississippi passed in the House of ...

A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that oversees pharmacy practice in Mississippi passed in the House of ...

In late December, President-elect Donald Trump put pharmacy benefit managers ... president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the industry’s trade group.

Other people said they are being steered to either CVS or Walgreens, depending on the pharmacy benefits management company attached to their insurers. Danielle McCarthy was a longtime customer ...