The PBM Act would make companies like CVS and UnitedHealth that own health insurers or PBMs sell pharmacy assets. That would help independent pharmacies, but may not help patients, according to one expert.| Healthcare Dive
Top executives of CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts made a rare congressional appearance to defend pharmacy benefit managers’ drug pricing policies.| Healthcare Dive
Antitrust regulators are poised to file suit against CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx over how they negotiate discounts for drugs, including insulin, according to the report.| Healthcare Dive
The report is not positive for the drug middlemen, which immediately criticized it as one-sided.| Healthcare Dive
In response to prescription drug spending growth and heightened attention to drug prices, some policymakers have proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare and private payers. This brief describes the current status of drug price negotiation proposals, looks back at the history of proposals to give the federal government the authority to negotiate drug prices in Medicare, describes the negotiation provisions in key legislation (H.R. 3), ...| KFF
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Some clarity for this wildly confusing topic.| yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
