Health Care Reform

The Department of Justice alleges CVS Pharmacy filled large quantities of prescriptions for controlled substances written by prescribers it knew to be engaged in “pill mill practices.”

Congress ended up passing a shorter package with no provisions related to pharmacy benefit managers.

Private employers' expenditures are growing more than 70% faster than the national total, according to new government data.

The high cost of health care drove the vast majority of strategies in the benefits space, as pharmacy benefit managers found themselves in the headlines far too often this year, as the high costs of drugs (and weight loss drugs, in particular) were a hot topic.

Optometrists hope to follow the same path pharmacies took to weaken care management programs.

Part of legislation created to keep the government from shutting down would require pharmacy benefit managers to pass all rebates on to the plan sponsors.