OPELIKA, Ala. (WTVM) - Alanbama Lawmakers are pushing for an Alabama pharmacy bill to be reformed. Many local drug stores are closing or struggling to stay afloat. Pharmacy Benefit Managers or PBM’s ...

This is the furthest we’ve been in two years,” said Parks. “We’re bringing fairness to the patient and to independent ...

The bill, which encompasses the recommendations of a task force, would regulate pharmacy benefit managers and increase price ...

A report from the American Economic Liberties Project points the finger at pharmacy benefit managers as chains and independent drugstores struggle. For several years now, pharmacies have faced ...

On the door of Adams Drugs on Perry Hill Road hangs a black wreath and a list of pharmacy closures in Alabama. The owner says ...

A bipartisan, end-of-the-year healthcare package including telehealth extensions, PBM reform and a physician fee schedule fix ...

Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, are meant to lower drug prices by acting as a middleman between drug manufacturers and ...

At least 20 states have settled disputes with the insurance giant since 2021 over allegations that its pharmacy benefit ...

Spread pricing is the difference between what a PBM reimburses a pharmacy for a prescription and the amount it charges an insurance plan’s sponsor. Critics of the practice say the PBMs ...

But I have had to close three of them, including my retail pharmacy, due in part to mandatory “take-it-or-leave-it” pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) contracts that forced me to accept ...

insurance companies, employers and other health plan sponsors. It also would have banned or limited revenue-generating practices such as spread pricing, which is when a PBM charges its clients a ...

ARKANSAS, USA — A new bill in the Arkansas Legislature aims to shake up the state's pharmaceutical industry by barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning or holding permits for drugstores in ...