After more than a two-year hiatus, Kroger is welcoming back Express Scripts customers for health and pharmacy needs. Kroger ...

The PBM is the entity for which the entire ... Therefore, entities like insurance companies and TPAs often outsource the management of pharmacy benefits to one of the major PBMs.

Pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts unveiled several steps it's taking to boost transparency and mitigate high ...

Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, are meant to act as a middleman between drug manufacturers and insurance companies, with ...

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission says pharmacy benefit management companies are driving up your out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs. A new report by the Federal Trade Commission ...

Iowa pharmacists and advocates said Wednesday lawmakers need to pass legislation regulating pharmacy benefit managers, the third-party companies that negotiate prescription prices between health ...

The Cigna Group reported more than $3.4 billion in 2024 profits including $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter despite rising medical expenses in its employer plans.

The bill would allow pharmacies to decline dispensing prescriptions to people if that pharmacy would be reimbursed less than ...

Even as some advocate for more transparency within the industry and for reining in pharmacy benefit management companies, other groups in Massachusetts believe these work to their benefit.

The company also owns Aetna, one of the country's largest ... Oklahoma Attorney Gentner Drummond filed his first lawsuit ...

CVS' Caremark, Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group's Optum control the majority of pharmacy benefit management in the U.S., while their parent companies operate health insurance businesses.

A patient with prescription benefits who is visiting a pharmacy may also be someone involved in the payer's decision process regarding a PBM. Or the patient may be an employer. Pharmacists can ...