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NEW YORK - April 4, 2023 - Cigna Healthcare has named Jamie Jones as general manager for its group employer business in New York/New Jersey. In this role, Jones will be... | April 4, 2023

Wyden is heading up a congressional investigation into the high cost of prescription medications and the roll of pharmacy benefits managers in pricing.

This week, Uber Health announced same-day medication delivery to increase healthcare access. (Photo : by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images) To further its goal of expanding people's access to healthcare, Uber Health said this week that it will begin offering same-day delivery of prescriptions.

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) — Eli Lilly hopes to litigate claims made by California Attorney General Rob Bonta over insulin prices in federal court.

The attorney general of Ohio is accusing pharmacy benefit managers of illegally driving up drug prices. What are the details? We'll examine that and other issues in this week's Top Stories, including Better Therapeutics' recent layoffs, and clinicians views on EHRs. For more news and features from Jeff Lagasse, visit Healthcare Finance News.

A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 30, 2023) – Independent pharmacists and the patients they serve have long had concerns about pharmacy benefit managers, their anticompetitive practices and the role they play in ever-increasing drug costs, the National Community Pharmacists Association said in a statement for the record that emphasizes the need for accurate reporting and transparency into PBM financials.

The complaint alleges multiple violations of the Valentine Act, Ohio’s antitrust law, which prohibits price fixing, controlled sales and other agreements that restrain trade and hurt competition. David Yost, the attorney general decried the practices of PBMs saying that they hurt everyday Ohioans dependent on life-saving drugs like insulin.

In a lawsuit filed this week, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accused pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of using a little-known, Switzerland-based company to illegally drive up drug prices and ultimately push those higher costs onto patients. This collusion, the lawsuit maintains, has been made possible by PBM market consolidation, which has left

Ohio’s antitrust lawsuit against Express Scripts Inc., Humana Pharmacy Solutions and other companies opens a potentially effective legal front against the embattled pharmacy benefit manager industry.