The Controversy Around Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Health Affairs This Week
English - March 31, 2023 05:00 - 10 minutes - 9.19 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsGovernment News News Commentary health policy health affairs health inequities aca affordable care act individual mandate medicare medicaid cms hhs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Marianne Amoss discuss the recent antitrust lawsuit against Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics regarding pharmacy benefit managers and alleged collusion to share drug pricing information.
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Related Links:
Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Their Role in Drug Spending (The Commonwealth Fund)The Association Between Drug Rebates and List Prices (University of Southern California)Ohio Attorney General David Yost Files Suit Against Express Scripts, Prime Therapeutics Over Rising Drug Costs (FierceHealthcare)Podcast: Pharmacy Benefit Managers, the FTC & You (Health Affairs This Week)Health Policy Brief: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Health Affairs)Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.