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  2. In late December, President-elect Donald Trump put pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, on notice.. Denouncing the $557 billion industry as “horrible middlemen,” responsible for—and “rich ...

  3. Explainer-Why are US pharmacy benefit managers under fire? - AOL

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    Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are in the crosshairs of Republicans and Democrats in Congress but have so far dodged any new litigation or reforms that had been targeted for inclusion in last ...

  4. Pharmacy benefit management - Wikipedia

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    Ron Wyden stated in April 2019 that they were as “clear a middleman rip-off as you are going to find”, because they make more money when they pick a higher-priced drug over a lower-priced drug. [54] In June 2024, the New York Times released its first article in a series critiquing pharmacy benefit managers for artificially raising drug ...

  5. Amid increased federal scrutiny, PBMs pivot strategy to ... - AOL

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    Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry faces pressure from the federal government, which is looking for ways to curb ...

  6. Catamaran Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Catamaran Corporation (formerly SXC Health Solutions) is the former name of a company that now operates within UnitedHealth Group's OptumRX division (since July 2015). It sells pharmacy benefit management and medical record keeping services to businesses in the United States [ 3 ] and to a broad client portfolio, including health plans and ...

  7. Social determinants of mental health - Wikipedia

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    Data from the China Family Panel Studies found a positive relationship between air pollution and mental illnesses, where an 18.04 μg/m3 increase in average PM 2.5 has a 6.67% increase in the probability of having a score corresponding with a severe mental illness, approximating a cost of US$22.88 billion in health expenditures associated with ...

  8. Congressional bicameral team pushes for insurance ... - AOL

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    According to the Harvard Political Review, the problem with pharmacy benefit managers is that they “have vertically integrated with pharmacy chains and health insurers through massive ...

  9. Psychiatric survivors movement - Wikipedia

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    The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (formerly known as National Coalition for Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations) campaigns in the United States to ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the state and national levels ...