Statements & Press Releases
Mar 13, 2024
PUTT: NEW LAWS MEAN NEW MEXICANS WILL HAVE INSIGHT INTO PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING AND MAINTAIN ACCESS TO COMMUNITY PHARMACIES
Governor Lujan Grisham, State Legislature “Draw a Line in the Sand to the Benefit of All New Mexicans” by Requiring Transparency and Fair Community Pharmacy Reimbursements
Mar 5, 2024
PHARMACISTS RALLY AT ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL TO SUPPORT INCREASED STATE OVERSIGHT OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG MIDDLEMEN
Community Pharmacists Call Attention to Increasing Prescription Drug Costs, Decreased Access to Care and Emerging Pharmacy Deserts Correlated to Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practices
Feb 27, 2024
PUTT: Congress Failure to Act on PBM Reform "Devastating"
PUTT TO CONGRESS: IMMEDIATE PBM REFORM IS CRITICAL TO PROTECTING PATIENT ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE
“Every day that passes without PBM reform is a day a community in America risks losing access to a pharmacy, its most readily available healthcare provider.”
Nov 28, 2023
PBM Accountability Project, Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency, and Nearly 50 Other Stakeholder Organizations Urge Congress to Pass PBM Reforms
"The predatory impact of PBM practices is extensively documented in the public record. And it is felt every day at pharmacy counters by millions of Americans who cannot afford their medicines. The time to deliver real results is now."
Jul 20, 2023
PUTT Statement to the FTC on PBM Advocacy
On behalf of our nation’s independent pharmacies and their patients, we urge the FTC to vote in favor of issuing a statement cautioning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) against relying on previous FTC advocacy materials opposing PBM transparency as part of their public relations / image management campaign.
Jul 5, 2023
PUTT: WISCONSIN APPELLATE COURT RULING AFFIRMS OPTUMRX CONTRACTS ARE “UNCONSCIONABLE”, CALLS ON ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT TO OVERTURN EARLIER ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT RULING
Illinois Court Ruling Would Ultimately Harm Patients and Their Pharmacies Under “Unreasonable and Unconstitutional” Terms of Forced Arbitration
May 26, 2023
Bravo to American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. for Calling On “Big 3” PBMs’ Largest Investor to Use Its Influence To Restrain PBM Economically Damaging Practices
This week American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI) took a bold step in the ongoing campaign for PBM reform: they openly called on Vanguard Inc., the largest investor of in the parent companies of the “Big 3” pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), to use its influence to curtail their PBMs’ abuse of patients and pharmacies....
