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FL Pharmacy Groups Fight PBMs with HB 1043

Florida pharmacy advocacy group Small Business Pharmacies Aligned for Reform (SPAR) and national advocacy group Pharmacists United for...

Republicans look to curb prescription middlemen’s fees and practices

Florida Politics A recent report shows that Pharmacy Benefit Managers could be costing the state hundreds of millions. A band of...

Florida lawmakers to consider heatedly-opposed PBM reform again in 2021

The Center Square There is bipartisan support in the Florida Legislature to impose transparency requirements and restrict pharmacy...

What Every Challenger Brand Can Learn From The Nation’s Smallest Pharmacies

Forbes A campaign against drug rebate kickbacks isn’t something you’d typically think would have much relevance to small businesses in...

Prescription for Transparency

California Business Journal – August 25, 2020 Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) were created to be the middleman and negotiate drug...

Pharmacy Deserts Are on the Horizon if PBMs Continue to Underpay Medicaid Reimbursements

Grit Daily – August 17, 2020 Independent pharmacies are being forced into bankruptcy due to underpayment for Medicaid reimbursements,...

Why are neighborhood pharmacies disappearing? Ask the Noriega Family.

Lissette Campos – July 15, 2020 I arrived at Bill’s Prescription Center in Brandon an hour early, half expecting to find a quiet...

Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are the Real Reason Behind Skyrocketing Drug Prices

Grit Daily – April 30, 2020 Why are drug costs so high in America? If you ask Bernie Sanders, he will tell you that it’s due to the greed...

Neighborhood pharmacies struggle to stay open due to PBM restrictions

Tampa Bay News 10, July 9, 2020 So far, at least 8 independent Tampa Bay pharmacies have shut down because of challenges with Pharmacy...

Opinion: Your local pharmacy is at risk of going away

83 Degrees, July 14, 2020 Tampa summers are typically the “slow season” for local pharmacies. But during COVID-19, nothing is typical nor...

Okeechobee pharmacist demands ‘special session on drug pricing reform’

NBC WPTV 5, February 13, 2020 A popular pharmacist is calling for prescription drug pricing reform in Florida after a newly released...

Brittany Jackson: Broken PBM system puts patient access at risk

Florida Politics, January 16, 2020 Four years after I was diagnosed with heart failure in 2013, I had a heart attack. My heart was...

Pharmacy benefit managers are making decisions that harm my Tallahassee patients | Opinion

Tallahassee Democrat, January 11, 2020 There are people with no medical training and no obligation to patients who have the power to...

How pharmacy benefit managers dictate care | Column

Tampa Bay Times by: Dr. Michael Diaz December 26, 2019 When patients are battling a life-threatening disease like cancer, they want a...