The pressure against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) continues to build. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The ...

Federal and state actions seek transparency and fair reimbursements from pharmacy benefit managers, as rural communities lose local drugstores.

Across the country, health systems are rethinking their reliance on legacy PBMs. Instead of outsourcing, more organizations are bringing PBM functions in-house to take back control, capture savings, ...

The Department of Labor wants to force pharmacy benefit managers to share more information about their compensation and business practices with their employer clients, in the latest bet from the Trump ...

The conclusion of the longest government shutdown in history and rising political acrimony rightly receives a great deal of attention but this focus makes it easy to overlook areas where beneficial ...

While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice cream, homemade cake, or cookies. It wasn’t a bake sale, but the sweets ...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 and the Department of Labor’s proposed rule implement major PBM reforms for employers, but don’t include everything they want, including a ban on spread ...

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) sit in the center of our prescription drug system, coordinating between insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. This gives them a uniquely powerful ...

Pharmacy benefits managers have a tremendous impact on medication coverage. In my last article, which was devoted to the causes of dramatically rising prescription drug costs and potential solutions, ...

Michael Brixius is a pharmacist and the current Story County GOP organizational chair. Iowa’s community pharmacies — the lifeblood of our small towns — are in crisis. Since 2014, over 200 pharmacies ...