The new rates reflect a 12% to 15.8% rise over current copays for medications purchased at retail pharmacies and through the ...

For those paying the full cost of medications, the new model will reduce the monthly cost for brand-name prescriptions by an ...

In a step to make primary healthcare more accessible and affordable, health officials have introduced a new framework ...

The AMCP Nexus meeting addressed healthcare policy issues, including PBM reform, Medicaid reform, and the Inflation Reduction ...

Generic and biosimilar drugs are becoming more expensive and less accessible to patients because of their formulary placement, according to Drug Topics. Pharmacy benefit managers are increasingly ...

Express Scripts Holding, a pharmacy benefit manager that negotiates drug prices for many health plans, will launch a formulary with lower list price drugs in an effort to reduce reliance on rebates ...

Worth noting, CVS Caremark—the biggest PBM in the U.S.— announced in May that it would make Novo Nordisk’s rival drug Wegovy ...

Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, is president of Sheldon S. Sones and Associates, a pharmacy and accreditation consulting firm based in Newington, Conn. Q: Is there a certain format that has to be used ...