News from the fight to

#SaveIndependentPharmacy

New York Times The Middlemen series

Featured
The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business
The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business

The biggest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.

The third in “THE MIDDLEMEN” series of articles by reporters Rebecca Robins and Reed Abelson investigating PBMs .

Read More →
What to Do if You’re Overpaying for Prescriptions
What to Do if You’re Overpaying for Prescriptions

Here’s what to know about your pharmacy benefit manager and how to find out if you are being overcharged for medications.

The first in “THE MIDDLEMEN” series of articles by reporters Rebecca Robins and Reed Abelson investigating PBMs.

Read More →
The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs
The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government.

The second in “THE MIDDLEMEN” series of articles by reporters Rebecca Robins and Reed Abelson investigating PBMs.

Read More →
Legalized Racketeering? How PBMs Skirt the Law to Rake in Billions
HEALTH CARE un-covered St. Paul Corner Drug (SPCD) HEALTH CARE un-covered St. Paul Corner Drug (SPCD)

Legalized Racketeering? How PBMs Skirt the Law to Rake in Billions

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have been under scrutiny lately for their actions as middlemen in the flow of prescription drugs from manufacturers to patients. But perhaps their worst actions are buried within a maze of consolidation and paperwork. Big Insurance has consolidated the entire pharmaceutical benefit, claim, and dispensing sector to squeeze as much money out of patients as possible.

Read More