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New York Times’ The Middlemen series
Rally outside Optum HQ brings debate over pharmacy benefits managers to Twin Cities
Patients, providers, and legislators gathered to allege biggest players are ballooning drug costs while running independent pharmacies out of business; Optum denied claims.
A Bipartisan Coalition of 39 State Attorneys General Urge Congressional Action on Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform
The bipartisan group of signatories included Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Commerce fines CVS Caremark $500,000 after 2022 case alleging violations of Pharmacy Benefit Manager Act
The Minnesota Department of Commerce announced it has levied a $500,000 penalty against the pharmacy benefit manager CVS Caremark after alleging that Caremark violated state law prohibiting a practice known as ‘patient steering.’