The complaint targets the group purchasing organizations affiliated with the "big three" pharmacy benefit managers: CVS ...

the Medicaid net price will almost always be as good as or better than the best prices negotiated in the private sector (whether by a PBM, HMO, GPO or other private purchaser). Medicaid net price ...

It’s the second major investigation into middlemen in the US medicines supply chain, coming after an ongoing FTC probe of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies, which started in 2022.

The findings may help inform policy changes at the federal level aiming to address unfair and deceptive pharmacy benefit ...

During the House Oversight hearing earlier this summer, Conway, Kautzner and Joyner defended PBM business practices in front of a generally unfriendly panel of lawmakers. PBMs, middlemen that sit ...

Collectively, they control 80% of the PBM market. All three are also part of large, vertically integrated healthcare companies. Caremark is a subsidiary of CVS Health and a sister company to ...

The News & Observer UNC Health has launched its own pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to serve employers in North and South Carolina. UNC Health has been using this PBM to manage prescriptions for ...

Their parent companies CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth all include a major PBM, health insurer and pharmacy network. That vertical integration incentivizes and gives the conglomerates the ability to ...

Like most independent pharmacists across North Carolina, Kevin Layne has struggled to keep his business afloat. Layne has owned and operated Layne’s Family Pharmacy in Rockingham County with his ...

The analysis, released in the Journal of the American Medical Association, finds that CVS Health's Caremark holds the largest market share overall in the PBM space. However, it led by the largest ...