This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I put the finishing touches on DCI’s 2025-26 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Click here to see the original post from June 2025. --- The 340B Drug Pricing Program has emerged as a growing source of profits for pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Drug Channels Institute’s latest exclusive analysis of the 2025 market reveals a highly concentrated market structure increasingly dominated...| Drug Channels
This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I put the finishing touches on DCI’s 2025-26 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Click here to see the original post from July 2025. --- It’s time for Drug Channels’ annual update on drug pricing trends at the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers. This year’s review includes the following nine companies: Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, S...| Drug Channels
This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I put the finishing touches on DCI’s 2025-26 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Click here to see the original post from July 2025. ICYMI, Express Scripts will boot the reference products from its 2026 formulary, but will cling to its biosimilar pricing double standard. --- The 2025 launch of biosimilars to Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara (ustekinumab) marks another turning point in pharmacy benefit dyn...| Drug Channels
Pharmacy services administrative organizations (PSAOs), which operate between pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and smaller pharmacies, are among the most mysterious—and misunderstood—intermediaries in our complex U.S. drug channel. Adding to the mystery: the largest PSAOs are owned by the three multi-billion dollar, public companies that also dominate pharmaceutical distribution—Cencora, Cardinal Health, and McKesson. These companies sit atop the Fortune 500 list and distribute more tha...| Drug Channels
Here are five guidelines to help employers balance health outcomes and financial responsibility to ensure that GLP-1 coverage is effective, affordable, and aligned with improved health and workforce well-being for employees and their families.| MedCity News
An author of the Affordable Care Act explores what the federal push to lower prescription drug prices could do—and what it may be missing.| HR Executive