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How To Get Away With Corporate Murder: Unbundling And Disrupting Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Part 1)
Forbes If, as Mitt Romney said, a corporation is a person, then is it akin to murder if an idea takes down a company? What about if it...
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How the 10 largest PBMs hold huge sway in health care marketplace
American Medical Association What’s the news: The AMA has gathered first-of-its-kind data on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and its...
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‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been...
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Nearly 20% of Medicare Advantage plans lose star revenue for 2023
Modern Healthcare Just half of Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage received ratings that will earn them bonuses for...
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Anthem must face Medicare Advantage fraud lawsuit, judge rules
Modern Healthcare Author: Nona Tepper Anthem must face a Justice Department lawsuit alleging the Medicare Advantage insurer intentionally...
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Nearly 15,000 Pharmacies Leaving Tricare Next Month
Military.com Thousands of independent and community pharmacies are poised to be dropped from Tricare's pharmacy network next month in a...
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Angry at Big Pharma? Direct it at Big PBM!
LinkedIn Pulse Big Pharma has a very bad reputation, 58% disapprove, however people should REALLY be pissed at another small group of...
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Judge approves Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67B antitrust settlement
Modern Healthcare A federal judge approved Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ $2.67 billion antitrust settlement on Tuesday. Barring...
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FTC Caught in Balancing Act With Pharmacy Benefit Manager Probe
PBM group says independent pharmacies are ‘stable’ ‘Need to understand’ what’s happening with drug supply chain, consumer costs Bloomberg...
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Healthcare Policy Expert: FTC Could Put Insurers' Drug Middlemen On A Diet
The Federal Trade Commission has an opportunity to impact healthcare for Americans. Newsweek Fat can sometimes cause healthcare issues,...
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The Cantwell-Grassley PBM Bill Is Much Needed But More Can Be Done
Health Affairs Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently introduced legislation that aims to shed light on...
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FTC Goes After PBMs, Warns Of Legal Action
Forbes Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously (5-0) to examine rising list prices of insulin, but also to probe...
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Ohio Medicaid accused of strong-arm tactics on pharmacies, just like PBMs
The Columbus Dispatch Pharmacy deserts for the poorest and disabled Ohioans could grow unless a dispute over new state Medicaid contracts...
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AHA presses for False Claims Act probes to target payers over Medicare Advantage denials
The Justice Department needs to create a task force to study potential False Claims Act violations conducted by Medicare Advantage plans,...
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Senate Commerce Committee Issues Testimony From David A. Balto Law Offices Antitrust Attorney
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee issued the following testimony by David A. Balto, antitrust attorney at David...
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Amneal must give EpiPen plaintiffs documents on PBM dealings
Judge finds documents relevant to drug wholesalers' case over allergy injector pricing Reuters Drug wholesalers accusing Viatris Inc and...
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Louisiana sues health care company over practices under investigation in Ohio
Legal document says UnitedHealth inflated drugs by “billions” Ohio Capital Journal Louisiana is suing health care giant UnitedHealth over...
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How a Formulary Change and a Few Tweets Led to a HIPAA Complaint
Patient and patient advocate Beth Waldron used her social media platform to criticize CVS Caremark’s removal of Eliquis (apixaban) from...
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Prospect of lower fees for prescription drugs could be dashed by new maneuver from PBMs
The Columbus Dispatch A few months ago, proposed federal action to reduce fees on prescription drugs used by millions of older Americans...
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CEO of upstart PBM: What CVS, Cigna and other PBMs are doing in drug pricing is neither sustainable
A.J. Loiacono was speaking at MedCity INVEST in late March in Chicago when an audience member requested him to address whether it is...
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