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  1. GoodRx and #PharmacyBenefitManagers (#PBM’s) Being Sued in Class Action case for price-fixing 😬

    I’ve been shifting a lot of my inquiries on medication pricing to #MarkCuban's #CostPlusDrugs online pharmacy. In many cases, their prices are lower or similar to patient's co-pay and typically much less than the prices listed in #GoodRx.

    My patients are usually flabbergasted when they see these Cuban's prices. I tell them it always pays to shop around!

    PS: This also goes for diagnostic studies (#hospitals usually charge 3-6 times more than most outpatient facilities.)

    healthcare-brew.com/stories/20

  2. Follow the Money!

    “The small-town drugstore closed for the last time on a clear and chilly afternoon in February. Jon Jacobs, who owned Yough Valley Pharmacy, hugged his employees goodbye.

    Mr. Jacobs, a 70-year-old pharmacist, had spent more than half his life building his drugstore into a bedrock of Confluence, Pa., a rural community of roughly 1,000 people. Now the town was losing its only health care provider.

    Obscure but powerful health care middlemen — companies known as #PharmacyBenefitManagers, or P.B.M.s — had destroyed his business.”

    #pbm #pharmacy #pharmaceuticals #healthcare #healthcarecosts
    nytimes.com/2024/10/19/busines

  3. #AmazonPharmacy #AmazonRx
    #Pharmacy #PharmacyBenefitManagers #RiteAid #CVS

    It didn't occur to me until I am really getting sick of the rigmarole with the pharmacy. Now I understand. Schoolhouse Rock taught me about Knowledge is Power!
    If you are prescribed a "controlled" rx, such as #Adderall please be aware.

    This just some AI vs Wikipedia mash-up:

    whatsonyourbrain.com/your-loca

  4. Drug middlemen inflate US prices, squeeze out competition, FTC says - Enlarge / Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), test... - arstechnica.com/?p=2036032 #pharmacybenefitmanagers #expressscripts #cvscaremark #drugpricing #healthcare #science #health #policy #cvs #ftc #pbm