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Tag: pharmacy benefit managers

Open Enrollment: Beware These Insurance Barriers & PBM Schemes

Open Enrollment: Beware These Insurance Barriers & PBM Schemes

Nov 8, 2019 | Health Insurance, News

Every year, patients struggle to pick the right health insurance during open enrollment. That difficult task is made harder by insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers. “Formularies, specialty tiers, prior authorization — health insurance might as well...
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Congress Grills Secretive PBM Middlemen, but Misses the Most Important Point

Aug 6, 2019 | News

Pharmacy benefit managers, the secretive drug middlemen that pocket billions of dollars in kickbacks, were grilled this past week at a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing on drug prices. Senators asked tough questions about what exactly PBMs do – and why pharmacy...
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This one reform could immediately lower patient drug costs. Insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers just blocked it.

This one reform could immediately lower patient drug costs. Insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers just blocked it.

Jul 23, 2019 | Drug Costs, News, Pharmacy Benefit Managers

As the year began, patients seeking relief from high out-of-pocket health care costs had reason to be optimistic. A proposed rule introduced by the Department of Health and Human Services would have stopped pharmacy benefit managers and insurance companies from...
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