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Experts weigh in on Trump reversing Biden's order to lower drug prices
During his presidency, Joe Biden had directed Medicare to look at ways to lower drug costs, including whether or not to impose a two...
Jan 31
FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system
PBMs are ‘charging enormous markups on dozens of lifesaving drugs,’ an agency official said. For the second time in less than a year, the...
Jan 15
‘Customers are panicking’; Pharmacists make their case for reining in pharmacy benefit managers
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are squeezing independent pharmacies out of the drug market, according to pharmacists who recently...
Dec 6, 2024
Dayton Daily News: Letter to the Editor
The Ohio Hematology Oncology Society (OHOS) represents over 220 hematology and oncology providers dedicated to protecting access to...
Nov 30, 2024
Big drug middlemen sue to stop federal antitrust action
The three largest pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — earlier this month went to court to quash a suit by the Federal Trade Commission...
Nov 29, 2024
Opinion: Ohioans couldn't save Plain City Druggist from dirty PBMs, but it can help others
“I don't know what some of the (patients) are going to do,” a Plain City Druggist customer lamented early this year upon the central Ohio...
Nov 1, 2024
Wyden and Brown Urge FTC to Investigate Emerging Anti-Competitive Practices by PBMs
As Congress and FTC Continue to Investigate and Address the Role of Pharma Middlemen in High Drug Costs, Leading Senators Highlight...
Oct 2, 2024
Ohio pharmacy leader says recent mass closures are a warning
The closure of hundreds of pharmacies by two major chains might be too big a phenomenon to compare to a canary in a coal mine. But a...
Sep 11, 2024
Pharmacy middlemen face new allegations of skimming
It was always the suspicion. When shadowy pharmacy middlemen started in 2019 to create yet another layer of middlemen, critics suspected...
Aug 7, 2024
Drug middlemen say Pharma sets prices. Then why do middlemen have hundreds for the same drug?
Pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers deny claims that they’re responsible for the inflating cost of medicine. They say...
Jul 26, 2024
Pharmacy closures multiply, threatening to create health care deserts
Closures come as regulators warn of anticompetitive conglomerates This far-flung town in southern Nebraska has an advantage its neighbors...
Jul 23, 2024
Federal regulator: Pharmacy middlemen appear to be raising prices, hurting patients
The federal trade watchdog on Tuesday released an interim report saying that sprawling health care conglomerates are driving out...
Jul 9, 2024
Mark Cuban has a simple question for CVS’s drug middleman: Why don’t you publish your prices?
Businessman and TV personality Mark Cuban has a seemingly straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned by CVS: If you’re as...
Apr 26, 2024
State attorneys general urge PBM reform
The letter, sent on behalf of 39 state attorneys general to leaders in Congress, comes as lawmakers consider legislation to...
Feb 24, 2024
What Ohio leaders are doing to fight increasing costs for prescription drugs
Prescription drug prices are continuously increasing. The Insulin Reduction Act, passed by Congress in 2022, caps insulin copays at $35...
Feb 15, 2024
Contractor for WV public employees system pays itself way more for some drugs than necessary
Ohio has filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the drug middleman company Express Scripts. Express Scripts, the company that handles...
Feb 7, 2024
Ohio antitrust suit against drug middlemen hovers between courts
A lawsuit accusing huge health care companies of colluding to jack up prices is stalled as the sides fight over which court should hear...
Feb 2, 2024
Ohio Attorney General asks that CVS store be put on probation “for a period of years”
A deputy attorney general working for the Ohio Board of Pharmacy on Thursday recommended that the board fine CVS and place a store it...
Jan 17, 2024
What are pharmacy benefit managers, and why are...Ohio and the city of Cleveland suing them?
They oversee and negotiate how much you and your insurance spend on prescriptions, but are pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) just adding...
Dec 1, 2023
Ohio pharmacy board members seem skeptical of CVS claims
A disciplinary hearing related to understaffing at some CVS pharmacies in Ohio didn’t come to a conclusion Wednesday. But members of the...
Nov 9, 2023
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