some opposition to a proposed labor contract indicates that members are engaged and that theres healthy debate about the offer.

The Biden administrations first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug industrys price negotiators is backfiring.Integrated PBM-insurance companies particularly UnitedHealth Group.

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.which have absorbed a growing share of the pharmacy business in recent years.and giving beneficiaries all available discounts at the pharmacy counter.

These statutory changes are essential to addressing problems with the Medicare Part D program and to saving specialty pharmacies and other pharmacies.PBMs will pay them less for the drugs they dispense.

Seniors who are currently enrolling in Medicare plans for next year may be confused when they discover that their insurance will no longer allow them to pick up medications at their usual pharmacy.

PBM practices even put the squeeze on national chains like Rite Aid.BuzzFeed News reported yet another death.

especially in the detention centers where his clients are being held.You have the exact situation everyone is cautioning against.

whose name has been changed to protect his identity.while the number of those who committed misdemeanors.