Consumers could save up to $5,400 a year by price shopping for their medications, according to a new study published by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. For its survey, the research group ...
Drug prices skyrocket in 2026 as drugmakers plan hikes on 350 medications, despite Trump administration affordability pledges ...
Chargemaster prices for generic drugs in hospitals can be 6,000 percent higher than the price of the same drug in a pharmacy, according to an analysis by GoodRx, a pharmacy discount company. GoodRx ...
Few patients have even heard of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). That’s because PBMs like to stay out of sight. But you need to know about PBMs because they are powerful go-betweens in the ...
Discouraged by a lack of action from Congress, leaders from America’s largest pharmacy associations marched with dozens of demonstrators Friday outside the St. Louis-based headquarters of Express ...
Most patients trust that a pharmacy labeled "preferred" by their insurance plan will offer the lowest out-of-pocket cost. But ...
The major PBMs rely on our mistrust of the prescription drug industry, plus their opaque business models, to maintain sky-high prices and profits ($28 billion in 2019). Rather than growing profit ...
Prescription drug prices remain high despite the fact that the Biden Administration—and its predecessors—have declared reducing prices as a top priority, and the public has been demanding action on ...
The federal government is suing some big pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price of insulin soar for diabetic patients. Three companies that ...
Mattingly is an associate professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department ...
These pharmacy benefits managers, also known as PBMs, are either owned or connected to health insurance providers and are intended to facilitate negotiations with pharmaceutical manufacturers and ...