Missouri lawmakers can lower drug costs by reforming PBM abuses, not protecting them
Missourians are right to be concerned about the cost of health care. Prescription drug costs remain one of the most visible and painful expenses for families, seniors, and small employers.
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#phantomglitch #healthinsurance #pharmacybenefitmanagers #deductibles #maxoutofpocket
AOC vs CVS The Hearing That Exposed America’s Healthcare Racket
AOC dismantles CVS Health’s CEO, exposing how corporate consolidation drives up costs, traps patients, and turns healthcare into a profit extraction machine.
#AlexandriaOcasioCortez #corporateConsolidation #CVSHealth #DrugPricing #FTC #healthcareMonopoly #healthcareReform #MedicareForAll #pharmacyBenefitManagers https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oE8
LDH restores Aetna’s Medicaid contract
The Landry administration still plans to terminate its contract with UnitedHealthCare, which insures 330,700 Medicaid enrollees, at the end of month.https://thecurrentla.com/2025/ldh-restores-aetnas-medicaid-contract/
PBMs made billions marking up specialty drugs by more than 1,000 percent: FTC
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5085119-ftc-report-pharmacy-benefit-managers/
#pbm #pbms #PBMreform #cigna #unitedhealth #prescriptions #pharmacybenefitmanagers #cvs #caremark #ushealthcarecosts #ushealthcare #healthinsurance
This is painful: 3Telemedicine out, PBM legislation out, physician pay cut back it and more!
Reprehensible that our Congress won’t legislate and were bamboozled by Elon 3Musk. We have been doing CR’s and have not had any real appropriation bills since the GOP took over the house 2 years ago.
"Before it was scrapped, the deal included a number of healthcare provisions, like historic reforms to #PharmacyBenefitManagers, a bump to physician pay and a long-awaited extension to the #Medicare telehealth flexibilities”
It also allowed first-dollar coverage of #Telehealth for high deductible health plans
GoodRx and #PharmacyBenefitManagers (#PBM’s) Being Sued in Class Action case for price-fixing 😬
I’ve been shifting a lot of my inquiries on medication pricing to #MarkCuban's #CostPlusDrugs online pharmacy. In many cases, their prices are lower or similar to patient's co-pay and typically much less than the prices listed in #GoodRx.
My patients are usually flabbergasted when they see these Cuban's prices. I tell them it always pays to shop around!
PS: This also goes for diagnostic studies (#hospitals usually charge 3-6 times more than most outpatient facilities.)
Follow the Money!
“The small-town drugstore closed for the last time on a clear and chilly afternoon in February. Jon Jacobs, who owned Yough Valley Pharmacy, hugged his employees goodbye.
Mr. Jacobs, a 70-year-old pharmacist, had spent more than half his life building his drugstore into a bedrock of Confluence, Pa., a rural community of roughly 1,000 people. Now the town was losing its only health care provider.
Obscure but powerful health care middlemen — companies known as #PharmacyBenefitManagers, or P.B.M.s — had destroyed his business.”
#pbm #pharmacy #pharmaceuticals #healthcare #healthcarecosts
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/business/drugstores-closing-pbm-pharmacy.html
#AmazonPharmacy #AmazonRx
#Pharmacy #PharmacyBenefitManagers #RiteAid #CVS
It didn't occur to me until I am really getting sick of the rigmarole with the pharmacy. Now I understand. Schoolhouse Rock taught me about Knowledge is Power!
If you are prescribed a "controlled" rx, such as #Adderall please be aware.
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