NACDS Welcomes Major New Pennsylvania Law Protecting Patients’ Pharmacy Access
HB 1993 includes important PBM reforms and protections for Pennsylvania families’ access to pharmacies for important services.
NACDS: Initial Findings of FTC’s PBM Study Demand Action
NACDS: “The Congress and states need no further validation for their bipartisan work to immediately confront pharmaceutical benefit manipulation that is devastating Americans, communities, and pharmacies of all sizes”
NACDS: “These harms are experienced brutally by pharmacies of diverse sizes and formats, including independents and chains, that do not receive preferential treatment from their vertically integrated plans and PBMs”
In Case You Missed It: NACDS Fighting for PBM Reform in Massachusetts
“Now is the time for Massachusetts to stop pharmaceutical benefit manipulation from inflating Bay Staters’ prescription drug prices and from jeopardizing access to trusted pharmacies and needed medications”
“Confronting the PBMs’ self-enriching tactics requires state and federal legislators and policymakers to do their part”
NACDS Applauds Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden for Calling on CMS to Rein in PBM Middlemen
Wyden letter urges Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “conduct immediate oversight and rigorous regulatory enforcement of specific Medicare Part D program requirements for plan sponsors and their PBMs.”
NACDS also is urging Congress to enact in the 118th Congress PBM reforms in Medicare, Medicaid and the commercial markets: all levels and branches of government must do their jobs.
At Massachusetts State House, NACDS Calls for PBM Reform Now
“Confronting the PBMs’ self-enriching tactics requires state and federal legislators and policymakers to do their part.”
“Must-Read and Must-Act Article”
The New York Times publishes first article in a series: “The Middlemen: The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs; Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers, and the government.”
Pharmacy Coalition Petitions SCOTUS to Reverse Lower Court on Oklahoma’s PBM Regulations
PBMs represent a “staggering national problem.”
Major New NACDS Ad Campaign: “Time Is Now” for PBM Reform
Urges Congress: no further delays in enacting bipartisan reforms to reduce Americans’ drug costs and to protect access to pharmacies and prescribed medications.
NACDS Welcomes Enactment of Vermont PBM Reform Bill
H. 233 includes important reforms that will help curb PBM tactics threatening Vermont patients and the pharmacies on which they rely.
NACDS Presses PBM Reform as Agencies Probe Consolidation
Responds to RFI from Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and Federal Trade Commission.
