Policy & Sector Insights

Bloomberg
Susan Hayes can’t forget the trek from the parking lot, across a dusty patch of Arizona desert, to a dingy building without air conditioning and through a door marked “Scorpion Room”…Read More

Morning Joe
MSNBC’s Morning Joe discusses drug price hikes, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) as drug pricing “middlemen” and the need for transparency…Watch here.

The Buffalo News
If our country truly wants to lower drug prices, then it should take a long hard look at the role played by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)….Read More

Modern Healthcare
Express Scripts said Monday that its biggest client, Anthem, will not renew its contract with the pharmacy benefit manager after the current agreement expires at the end of 2019…Read More

CNBC
Drug companies have pointed the finger at middlemen in the health-care system, saying they not only benefit from rising drug prices but contribute to their increases…Read More

The Sacramento Bee
Here’s the reality: Those benefits are administered by the most influential segment of the health care industry that you’ve never heard of. These companies are called pharmacy benefits managers (PBM)…Read More

Real Clear Health
When the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and insurance giant sued each other last year over how much each company made in profits, the curtain was raised on the oversized role PBMs play in determining what consumers pay for their prescription drugs…Read More

STAT News
Three consumers filed a lawsuit accusing Mylan Pharmaceuticals of paying kickbacks to pharmacy benefits managers in order to boost EpiPen sales…Read More.

The Week
Most people agree that American drug prices are too high — and it seems to be getting worse. Every month or so there comes yet another story about some holder of a pharmaceutical patent jacking the price up a zillion percent to make a quick buck at the expense of sick people…Read More