and that sFI88tarts with Medicare.

These behemoth companies have negotiating power with drugmakers that enables them to sell a diabetes drug like Ozempic (sold under the name Wegovy for weight loss).1and requires PBMs to taFI88ke most of their performance fees at the time prescriptions are filled.

pharmacists can be slapped with a fee for poor performance.the PBM tells you the patient pays $20 for this drug.Jolley said his drugstore expects to lose at least 100 customers after refusing a contract with a large PBM.FI88

Senate Finance Committee billswould require the Department of Health and Human Services to issue rules ensuring that PBM payments to pharmacies and other contract terms are reasonable.who accuse them of siphoning money from what is already the worlds most expensive health care system without providing additional value.

Pharmacist groups supported the Medicare rule change.

an agency created to advise Congress on the program for people who are 65 and older or have disabilities.Israeli and Qatari officials all acknowledge that this is particularly thorny given that the negotiations have been taking place during an active war.

What Israels military found at Al-Shifa and what it didnt 07:46 A second official emphasized that only if there was a final deal.The children are being prioritized as part of the first group for a potential hostage release aimed at ultimately bringing home the roughly 240 hostages that were taken during the Oct.

That was followed this week by meetings in the region involving President Bidens top Mideast advisor.Aid would also be permitted into Gaza during a cessation of hostilities.