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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 acts as a first step in addressing prescription drug pricing challenges related to the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report this week on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...