Policy & Sector Insights

STAT
Ohio officials are ratcheting up their closely watched battle with pharmacy benefit managers as the state attorney general is seeking nearly $16 million from OptumRx for allegedly failing to pass along discounts for generic drugs that were purchased by a state agency…Read More.

Inside Health Policy
A bill that takes a unique, aggressive strategy to require pharmacy benefit managers pass drug rebates through to plans was passed out of a Montana Senate committee with only Republican support…Read More.

Modern Healthcare
The Trump administration is calling for pharmacy benefit managers to disclose to health plans the fees that they get from drug companies for administrative services as part of a bid to boost transparency among PBMs…Read More.

STAT
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Trump touted his administration’s work to reduce the price of prescription drugs and called on Congress to take further action…Read More.

Medpage Today
It’s time for one of Washington’s favorite parlor games: guessing what the president will say in his State of the Union speech…Read More.

Forbes
On Thursday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar released a long-anticipated rule that could transform the prices that people pay for prescription drugs, and the broader pharmaceutical market…Read More.

STAT News
Amid intensifying scrutiny of medicine costs, an analysis of the New York Medicaid and pharmacy data suggests that pharmacy benefit managers are increasingly marking up generic drugs, raising questions about the extent to which the profits are passed back to the state health care program…Read More.

The Columbus Dispatch
Walmart declared war on CVS when it blasted the pharmacy giant Tuesday and announced it will stop doing most business with CVS’s pharmacy benefit manager…Read More.

Inside Health Policy
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will discuss a bill on pharmacy benefit manager transparency this session with his committee, a spokesman for the senator told Inside Health Policy…Read More.