Article: Confusing New PBM Drug Pricing Terms Leave Payors Unsure of Next Steps.

Article: PBMs, Pharmacists Slug It Out
Pharmaceutical Executive;  July 1, 2005 ;     543 words ... ... Medicare legislation gives PBMs a central role in managing drug ... networks. Pharmacists charge that PBMs are driving up drug prices just ... Association. At a forum on drug pricing sponsored by AARP last month ... PCMA), which represents PBMs, has accused independent pharmacists ...

Article: Rx revenue streaming: Transparency offers brokers and clients a ...
Employee Benefit Adviser;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... understand the nuances of drug pricing. After all, while transparency ... any, just because some PBMs now will open up their ... is very different from drug pricing. Benefit pricing takes ... get the best value and PBMs to make their money ...

Article: Pharmacy Freedom Fund targets PBMs
Drug Topics;  June 3, 2002 ;     685 words ... ... clear they want to eliminate PBMs or limit them to a purely administrative ... its complexity," he said. PBMs have long been a thorn in the ... contracts, out-of-date drug pricing databases; audits; and mandated ... on community pharmacies. And PBMs operate, for the most part ...

Article: PBMs Block Maine Law
Pharmaceutical Executive;  April 1, 2004 ;     362 words ...THE STATES Judge says that PBMs don't have to disclose manufacturer ... pharmacists over control of drug pricing and utilization. A federal ... of a new Maine law requiring PBMs to disclose manufacturer rebates ... proprietary information-actions that PBMs claim would greatly reduce their ...

Article: PCMA: PBMs Projected to Save Medicare, Commercial Market ...
U.S. Newswire;  March 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... while preserving broad access, PBMs will save public and private ... benefit management marketplace. PBMs provide payors with a variety ... pharmacies. Public disclosure of drug-pricing contract terms would give the ... private contract terms between PBMs and manufacturers would dilute ...

Article: Big US employers band to monitor PBMs.(Towers Perrin's ...
Pharma Marketletter;  February 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Following an evaluation of 17 PBMs, Medco Health Solutions was ... discounts and other aspects of drug pricing have been largely invisible ... programs collaboratively with PBMs, working on utilization management ... programs collaboratively with PBMs," he added.

Article: Insurers, PBMs divide over pill splitting.(News)(pharmacy ...
Business Insurance;  July 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... become a debatable issue among insurers and PBMs. Pill splitting is seen as a way for ... patients to take advantage of an anomaly in drug pricing,'' said Stephen Hyde, president of ... concern now expressed by insurers and PBMs is whether pill splitting programs undermine ...