Policymakers at the federal and state level have considered a number of reforms, many of which have bipartisan support, to ...

According to the study, a lack of competition, transparency, and oversight together make it difficult to understand who actually receives the benefits – are the savings passed on to patients or are ...

Time is slipping away from lawmakers who hope to resurrect a slate of changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry. PBMs dodged a bullet when those changes — which included ...

But I have had to close three of them, including my retail pharmacy, due in part to mandatory “take-it-or-leave-it” pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) contracts that forced me to accept ...

Related: Employers, insurers press Trump and Congress to revive PBM bills "I can tell you it is a priority of mine to ensure these commonsense and bipartisan policies become law," Energy and ...

The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion is con­tin­u­ing its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an­ti­com­pet­i­tive PBM prac­tices, with a new court or­der that will re­quire CVS Health to ...

A federal judge in Washington ordered CVS Health Corp. to comply with a document request from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a win for the antitrust and consumer protection agency in its long ...

At what was supposed to be a hearing to discuss PBM reform, some in Congress veered off into discussions about Medicaid and maternal health, and even Elon Musk. In the first Congressional hearing ...

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State Key Laboratory of Mesoscience and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China School of Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy ...