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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has joined a multi-state coalition of 22 attorneys general urging United Health Care Inc. to take more proactive action to protect healthcare providers, pharmacies, and patients who were harmed in the recent cyber attack on their subsidiary, Change Healthcare.

Businessman and TV personality Mark Cuban has a seemingly straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned by CVS: If you’re as transparent about drug pricing as you claim, why don’t you publish prices on your website? The company didn’t answer directly. Cuban, founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, last week raised that question […] The post Mark Cuban has a simple question for CVS’s drug middleman: Why don’t you publish your prices? appeared ...

Minnesotans, with their long-valued sense of fairness and decency, would never suggest that Fortune 500 corporations should boost their already-healthy revenues at the expense of our fellow citizens who are economically hurting and who have serious health care needs. And, yet, there is a bill pending in the Legislature that would enable the prosperous to […] The post Drug discount program is exploiting poor patients while corporate giants profit appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.

/PRNewswire/ -- In an important step toward driving long-term affordability and access to treatments for chronic and complex conditions, Evernorth Health...

On May 17, pharmacist, patients, caregivers, and physicians are expected to protest patient steering at the headquarters of Cigna's Express Scripts (ESI) in St. Louis—urged on by Loretta Boesing, founder of Unite for Safe Medications. Patient steering, protest organizers say, might be a vital business strategy for vertically integrated PBMs, but it ultimately offers no benefits to patients who get lost in the shuffle when their prescriptions are transferred to other pharmacies—often wit...

For the past few years, we have encouraged plan sponsors to focus on matters of fiduciary governance for their health and welfare benefit plans (see our 2021 blog post). Yet many plan...

Jefferson County and Arnold have not yet spent money from opioid settlements

To lower excessive out-of-pocket costs, we need to bring clarity and competition to the murky world of PBMs

The former chief of operations and executive director of Gilbertsville Area Community Ambulance Service faces two years of court supervision and is banned from the organization after he admitted to using the organization’s credit cards to make unauthorized personal purchases totaling more than $3,000.

Independent pharmacies are becoming an endangered species across Kentucky. In 2023 alone, 67 independently owned pharmacies closed in the state, many in rural and low-income communities.