Independent pharmacies know their communities, but many are struggling to stay open
Barnes Drug Store is an independent pharmacy in the south Georgia town of Valdosta that's been serving the community for a ...
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Ceramic Update: As duties on Chinese tile necessitate a sourcing shift in the U.S. market, who will fill the gap? - March 2020
China was producing tiles that were not easily available in the United States or from other parts of the world ... of Plastic Based Material Flooring (PBM Flooring) reads as follows, “Tile ...
House eyes PBM reform next steps
Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Republicans weigh path forward for ...
Wisconsin family files federal lawsuit against pharmacy chain and PBM over son’s death
The cost of Cole Schmidtknecht’s asthma inhaler was raised to over $500. His parents said Cole chose rent over medicine. Days ...
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Mississippi House passes pharmacy benefit manager transparency bill
A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that oversees pharmacy practice in Mississippi has passed the House of ...
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Big 3 PBM formularies favor private-label biosimilars
CVS Health owns Caremark and Cordavis, and its PBM's formulary contains a Cordavis-branded biosimilar. "Confusing? Absolutely. Profitable for the PBMs? Certainly. Good for plan sponsors and patients?
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Mississippi House Passes Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Bill
A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that oversees pharmacy practice in Mississippi passed in the House of ...
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Trump has promised to ‘knock out’ pharmacy benefit managers. How the drug middlemen became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate
“The central question here is whether the PBM industry should continue to be able to take income from both the manufacturer and the buyer.” The complexity of the business and the lack of ...
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Only an act of Congress can stop pharmacy monopolies, Sen. Lankford says
Oklahoma Attorney Gentner Drummond filed his first lawsuit under the state’s new pharmacy benefit management statutes on Thursday when he announced he is suing CVS Caremark for “multiple ...
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Examining the Value of Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies
Although the entire transmission process for a prescription claim from the time a pharmacist transmits it to the time the pharmacy receives payment authorization from the PBM on behalf of the ...
USA Today5d
Bitter pill: Pharmacy staff shortages, erratic hours are putting Oklahomans at risk
CVS was first to open when it tore down a Texaco station and built a store at 4500 NW 23 ... depending on the pharmacy benefits management company attached to their insurers.
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PBM reform dropped in Congress' funding package
The final text saw a number of legislative proposals culled in order to get it over the line, including measures that would have introduced stricter controls over the PBM sector that had been ...