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        "uri": "/2013/03/07/empowering-employers-to-reduce-the-cost-of-prescri/",
        "title": "Empowering employers to reduce the cost of prescription drugs",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "March 07, 2013",
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        "summary": "Negotiating contracts with third party administrators of prescription drug programs known as pharmacy benefits managers can be a difficult and confusing process, and its made all the more challenging when employers dont have all the information they need upfront.",
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        "uri": "/2012/11/19/watching-out-for-auto-refills-on-prescription-drug/",
        "title": "Watching out for auto-refills on prescription drugs",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "November 19, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Complex language and fee structures make pharmacy benefit managers tricky to deal withand the results can often be hazardous to an employers bottom line.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/08/27/who-runs-your-drug-plan/",
        "title": "Who runs your drug plan?",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "August 27, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "Pharmacists and other consumer advocates have often been skeptical of PBMs real value.",
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        "uri": "/2012/07/30/workers-comp-reimbursements-lead-to-big-paydays-fo/",
        "title": "Workers' comp reimbursements lead to big paydays for PBMs",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "July 30, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "In the shadowy world of pharmacy benefits management, exploiting workers compensation reimbursement rates is one of the many ways PBMs ensure their own massive profits while ultimately driving up drug costs for employers and consumers.",
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        "uri": "/2012/05/21/pbm-ad-campaign-misleads-consumers/",
        "title": "PBM ad campaign misleads consumers",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "May 21, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association just launched an advertising campaign that would make Mad Mens Don Draper and other spin doctors proud. Its an age-old strategy: if you cant win the fight, dodge the question and change the subject.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/04/30/shedding-light-on-the-pbm-game/",
        "title": "Shedding light on the PBM game",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "April 30, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Pharmacy benefits managers, third party administrators of prescription drug programs, are entering increasingly into a tricky game that sounds eerily familiar to anyone who was ever bullied by an older brother or sister.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/04/02/confused-by-rising-medication-costs-watch-out-for/",
        "title": "Confused by rising medication costs? Watch out for the rebates",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "April 02, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "Benefits managers should take a careful look at the common practices of their pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to understand the PBMs use of manufacturer rebates. While it may sound counter-intuitive, the use of rebates is actually an important factor in rising drug costs.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/03/19/get-more-from-your-pharmacy-benefit-manager/",
        "title": "Get more from your pharmacy benefit manager",
        "byline": "Dave Marley",
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        "prettyDate": "March 19, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "For many HR managers the world of pharmacy benefit managers, the third party administrators of prescription drug programs, is understandably confusing.",
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