Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty ...
Huge health conglomerates have another reason to worry that their business model might be disrupted. On a visit to Columbus, ...
“The traditional pharmacy, the dispensing model is not gonna survive,” McDonough said. While pharmacy closures are an obvious challenge to patient access, he says some pharmacies are reducing hours or ...
The middlemen are called pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs, and they have […] A federal antitrust watchdog is already conducting an investigation into and has filed a lawsuit against huge ...
One exception that enjoys bipartisan support, however, is the effort to rehab the drug supply chain. It’s currently dominated ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...
Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) will host a roundtable discussion with independent pharmacists on Saturday, November 2, ...
When a well-established local pharmacy can’t fill a prescription because doing so would cost the pharmacy money, it signals a ...
It remains to be seen how well President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will actually work in lowering prescription drug ...
At the top of the list are pharmacy benefit managers and the roadblocks they create ... there have been important efforts to rein in these middlemen who drive up costs for vulnerable patients. Current ...
The "middlemen of medicine" have become obstacles to progress, often perpetuating inefficiencies and exacerbating healthcare's existing problems.