If enacted, the legislation would create an independent, nonpartisan board of medical and health experts tasked with ...

Nothing in the court's ruling reduces or eliminates the fiduciary obligations that health plan sponsors must uphold under ...

UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx plans to cut up to 25% of its medication reauthorizations. OptumRx will ...

“All of this is directly because of the PBM stuff going on around the country,” Cottrell ... “We will be transferring all ...

Participant-plaintiffs Seth Stern, Angela Bindner, and Marianne Schmitt[i] have filed suit on behalf of the JP Morgan Chase Health Care and Insurance Program for Active Employees and its component ...

The primary goal is to address the rising cost of prescriptions in Mississippi. The Mississippi Senate revived their version of a bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) this week by ...

Concentration in the PBM market has led to less competition and higher profits ... Senior Vice President at Clinical Education Alliance (CEA) a leading continuing medical education and communications ...

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would bring about PBM reform in Alabama. “We’re doing fairly well, but the future doesn’t look that great,” said Mike Vinson, the owner and ...

He and others say Alabama is losing a pharmacy every week because of PBM’s “Our company in fact has closed three stores in six months in three rural areas which is leaving patients without ...

My 19-year-old daughter required a treatment prescribed by her doctor. Even with my professional expertise, her doctor and I spent hours fighting to get her medication approved.

"PBM has also been used to treat acne as it has ... the 1990s to see if it could help in cell regeneration. Since then, medical-grade devices have been used by dermatologists "for many years ...

The S+3Ms framework – subsidies, national insurance scheme MediShield Life, compulsory medical savings MediSave, and safety net for the poor MediFund – helps to cushion patients against ...