Nov 8, 2023 | Featured, Letters Supported, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Patients Rising, along with 50 other patient groups, sent a letter to Senate Leadership urging support for the health care provided through private employers to 179 million Americans by enacting strong pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms this year. It is imperative...
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May 8, 2023 | Copay Accumulators, Drug Costs, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Patients Rising Now sent a letter of support for Representatives Buddy Carter’s (R-GA-01) and Lisa Blunt Rochester’s (D-DE-AL) legislation: The Protecting Patients Against PBM Abuses Act. The problem is PBMs is so widespread that it is not only confined to...
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May 1, 2023 | Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Read the PDF Version What are Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)? PBMs are the middlemen who work for insurance companies to determine what drugs are and aren’t covered on an insurance formulary. They are a player in the supply chain between the manufacturers who make...
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Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), Express Scripts, has introduced network changes that have reduced the number of retail pharmacies within the Department of Defense (DoD)’s TRICARE benefits program by 15,000. Many of these are...
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Sep 26, 2022 | Featured, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have become embedded in the ecosystem of drug pricing– but these middlemen are one of the reasons patients see high prices at the pharmacy counter. This episode is a crash course in everything drug pricing with a focus on PBMs, from...
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May 5, 2022 | Featured, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are the middlemen who work for insurance companies to determine what drugs are and aren’t covered on an insurance formulary. They are a player in the supply chain between the manufacturers who make the drug and the patients who need...
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