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‘Ghost network’ of US healthcare providers amounts to fraud, lawsuit says
Class action finds ‘staggering’ cases of people struggling to find mental health care coinciding with mental health crisis
Pa. pharmacists say they’re receiving less money for drugs dispensed to Medicaid patients
Pennsylvania DHS says it will try to compel the insurance companies to reverse course, even though violated state contracts requiring that changes to pharmacy reimbursement rates be cleared with DHS first.
Indiana paid $7 billion to administer prescription drug benefits in five-year period according to new report
Indiana lawmakers are calling for more oversight of “pharmacy benefit managers,” or “PBMs” for short, following a report presented to the Health Care Cost Oversight Task Force this week. According to that preliminary report, Indiana paid $7 billion to administer prescription drug benefits for Hoosiers enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program and state employee plan through FY 2017 through FY 2022.
NY Governor Hochul Launches New Statewide Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Program
Long-Awaited Transition to NYRx Provides Eight Million Members Expanded Access to Prescription Medications at More Than 5,000 Pharmacies Statewide