New Paper Finds Potential Cost Savings from Adalimumab Biosimilars are Significant but Competitive Market Will Take Time The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) agrees that biosimilars bring more competition to the prescription drug marketplace, which is critical to lowering costs
Pharmacy Benefit Companies Innovate to Provide Choice for Clients, Lower Costs for Patients Even as Congress considers more government intervention and “drug pricing” legislation that ironically may prove only to increase prescription drug costs, pharmacy benefit companies continue to evolve
In case you missed it, a new article in The Atlantic explains how big drug companies commonly use an anti-competitive tactic, “pay-for-delay,” to prevent more affordable options from entering the marketplace.
A World Without Pharmacy Benefit Companies… …Means Employers Would Have to Go it Alone Pharmacy benefit companies play an important and unique role in the drug supply and payment chain. While they are best known for lowering drug costs through
(Washington, D.C.) — The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) today released a new report, “Drug Manufacturer Strategies for Keeping Drug Costs High,” on pharmaceutical industry pricing tactics that increase prescription drug costs for patients. The report, conducted by the research firm Visante,
The Medicare Prescription Drug Rebate Rule The Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit provides our nation’s seniors with affordable drug coverage, which is more important now than ever. The rebate rule clumsily attempts to eliminate the primary tool used by
(Washington, D.C.) — The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) released the following statement on the New York Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee’s report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). “This report attempts to undermine the only industry that is reducing prescription drug
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