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...
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...
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...
