Specialty Medications Drive Increased US Prescription Drug Spending
The number of people who had annual prescription medication costs of $50,000 or more in 2016 was 35% higher than it was in 2014,...
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Fair Prices, Fair Play And Profitable Brands
The price of an Epipen injector has risen from around $100 in 2009 to more than $600 in 2016. Epipen is a life-saving emergency injector...
How to Protect a Drug Patent? Give it to a Native American Tribe.
The drugmaker Allergan announced Friday that it had transferred its patents on a best-selling eye drug to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in...
Walgreens And Blue Cross-Owned PBM Launch New Company
Walgreens Boots Alliance has officially launched its new specialty pharmacy and prescription mail services company with pharmacy benefit...
Magellan Health loses PBM customer representing almost 9% of revenue; shares off 3%
In a regulatory filing, Magellan Health (MGLN -2.6%) discloses that it has mutually agreed to an early termination (effective today) of...
Co-Founder of Uber Bets on RxAdvance, a Game-Changing PBM Cloud, as It Disrupts Decades-Old Business
RxAdvance, a full service Pharmacy Benefits Management company, announced Oscar Salazar, co-founder of Uber, and Walter Jin, founder of...
Aetna exec talks Humana merger, PBM plans, divestitures
At Goldman Sachs' annual healthcare conference this week, Aetna President Karen Lynch offered a cautious peek behind the scenes of the...
The evolving role of the pharmacy benefit manager
Historically pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have been evaluated on their ability to lower total spend on prescription medicines for...
Three Big Pharma Companies Under Investigation Over PBM Contracts
Last week Johnson & Johnson disclosed in its 10Q filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission that its subsidiary, Janssen...
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Market in the US : Expected to Reach USD 4 Trillion by 2019
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Market in the US 2015-2019 Size and Share Published in 2015-12-09 Available for US$ 2500 at Researchmoz.us...
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