STAT
AUGUST 17, 2023
Blue Shield of California, a health insurance company that covers almost 5 million people, is restructuring how it will pay for prescription drugs by dividing the work up among five different vendors — two of which include Amazon and Mark Cuban’s pharmacy company.
STAT
JANUARY 20, 2023
The sausage-making of how insulin is priced is not for the faint of heart. It’s a complex tangle of drug manufacturers who’ve been resisting generics , health insurance companies trying to keep up impressive profits , plus the wholesalers who distribute medicines to pharmacies and the pharmacies that provide them to patients.
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PhRMA
MARCH 2, 2023
These include things like making sure patients aren’t paying more for their medicines than their health insurance company or requiring first-dollar coverage, so insurance companies cover the cost of certain lifesaving medicines from day one of the plan year. Here's how the program is (not) working.
HealthPartners
JULY 21, 2021
For example, members can compare drug prices at pharmacies or find a network provider. So it’s key to find a pharmacy partner, whether a PBM or a health insurance company, that will agree to transparency. It’s tools like our app that help us consistently get top ratings in member surveys.
STAT
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling against a Trump-era regulation that aimed to protect the way health insurance companies handle some prescription drug costs — a rare moment of harmony between the two administration’s approaches to drug pricing reform.
STAT
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The executive order promises “radical transparency” on health care prices for patients by ordering the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services “to rapidly implement and enforce the health care price transparency regulations.”
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