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Visante: Drug Manufacturer Coupons Raise Costs in Medicare Part D, Hurting Vulnerable Beneficiaries
May 11, 2020
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) currently bans manufacturer coupons...
Visante: Increased Costs Associated With Proposed State Legislation Impacting PBM Tools
April 01, 2020
Visante was commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) to estimate the potential cost impact of four types of...
Independent Pharmacies in the U.S. are More on the Rise than on the Decline
March 05, 2020
The independent pharmacy lobby is urging state legislatures to enact new legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that would increase...
Rebuttal of USC Schaeffer’s “The Association Between Drug Rebates and List Prices”
February 15, 2020
A recent white paper (“The Association Between Drug Rebates and List Prices”) narrowly suggests an association between list prices for brand...
February 14, 2020
A recent blog (“Payers and PBMs Profit from Obscure Pharmacy Fees, While Seniors See No Relief in Prescription Costs”) suggests performance-based...
Pennsylvania Medicaid MCO Prescription Drug Repricing: Cost Impacts of Using NADAC Payment Structure
November 14, 2019
Pennsylvania has proposed legislation (PA HB 941) to reconfigure the payment rates used for Medicaid prescriptions paid by Medicaid MCOs...
New Independent Government Reports Show PBM Rebates Reduce Rx Costs in Medicare Part D
November 11, 2019
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG)...
October 31, 2019
Most state Medicaid programs have predominantly transitioned the prescription drug benefit to the managed care setting, through which Medicaid managed...
July 11, 2019
A recent report from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission used publicly available drug pricing data in an attempt to identify...
May 10, 2019
Recent reports from 46brooklyn Research and their consulting arm 3 Axis Advisors have used publicly available drug pricing data, and...
March 18, 2019
Senior voters with Part D plans have largely not heard about proposed changes to Part D, however, and will punish...