Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty ...

One exception that enjoys bipartisan support, however, is the effort to rehab the drug supply chain. It’s currently dominated ...

The "middlemen of medicine" have become obstacles to progress, often perpetuating inefficiencies and exacerbating healthcare's existing problems.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their ...

When a well-established local pharmacy can’t fill a prescription because doing so would cost the pharmacy money, it signals a ...

Executives from Amazon, Walgreens, Blue Shield of California and PhRMA weighed in on how to fix the much-scrutinized pharmacy ...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.

Independent pharmacies have filed 3 class action lawsuits against GoodRx Holdings and major pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

These middlemen manage the drug benefits for virtually ... the insurer could merge with a PBM, increase billed drug costs for patients, direct patients to only their pharmacies, and ultimately ...

Fortunately, since my diagnosis of Sjogren's disease, there have been important efforts to rein in these middlemen who drive up costs for vulnerable patients. Current legislation before Congress, ...

BSCA is also making novel deals directly with drug manufacturers to bring cheaper biosimilars to its members, avoiding PBM middlemen entirely. The insurer expects to save between $10 million to $ ...

The executives are the latest to pile criticism onto PBMs, middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain that negotiate drug prices with manufacturers on behalf of insurers and employers and ...