Posts Tagged ‘prescription drugs’
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Target of Gov. DeSantis Proposal to Lower Drug Costs
Florida’s governor is taking aim at Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). Earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced legislation that he said would protect consumers and help in lowering the price of prescription drugs. A PBM is a third-party administrator of a prescription drug program that processes and pays prescription drug claims. They also are supposed…
Read MoreCMS proposes new payment model for Medicare Part B
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is proposing a new rule that could result in a new Medicare Part B drug payment model. Published in the Federal Register, the agency is proposing a two-phase model that would test whether alternative drug payment designs would result in a reduction in Medicare costs, while at the…
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