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Kudos to @StateRepManley & @repThadeusjones for fighting for transparency when it comes to PBMs, independent pharmacies & patients. Multiple. @truthrxillinois members were cheering you on in the meeting room & across the state. Thank you for continuing to dig into this problem!
FTC, @JusticeATR, and @HHSGov launched an easily accessible online portal for the public to report health care practices that may harm competition: HealthyCompetition.gov /2
Federal agencies launch portal for public reporting of anticompetitive practices in the health care sector: bit.ly/49GgkNd /1
You have the right to choose your pharmacy. If your insurance and pbm send you notice that you must go to their pharmacy, submit a complaint here.
You have the right to choose your pharmacy. If your insurance and pbm send you notice that you must go to their pharmacy, submit a complaint here.
Thank you @linakhanFTC Please repost this video Indy pharmacy community so more people are aware of our battle @costareports @DButterfieldRPh @ExposingPBMs @FrierLevitt @A_Ciaccia @DavidABalto @Commpharmacy @mcuban @pelterkevin @HokiePharmacist @_APCI @BrandiChane @Pharmassists
Desperate times cue drug middlemen’s loathsome measures - CDR – Chain Drug Review chaindrugreview.com/desperate-time…
“There are much-needed efforts underway to remedy this devastating situation, and for the PBMs to brand these reforms as a “tax” is unconscionable.” Desperate times cue drug middlemen’s loathsome measures - go.shr.lc/4cXfUoK @GovAbbott @TomOliverson @JaceYarbrough
If you are a self-insured company, THE FASTEST WAY TO CREATE CASH is to get all employees and covered persons to switch from Humira to Yusimry. The first costs you 80k per year. Yusimry from costplusdrugs.com/medications/yu… Cost 7,200 per year. That's $72,800 PER EMPLOYEE PER YEAR. You…
Thank you @BizOfPharmPod for having me on to talk PBM reform. Since this was recorded, Georgia has lost 5 independent pharmacies - leaving gaping holes in communities and in the healthcare system. PBM reform should be center stage in every state legislature and in US Congress.
Thank you @BizOfPharmPod for having me on to talk PBM reform. Since this was recorded, Georgia has lost 5 independent pharmacies - leaving gaping holes in communities and in the healthcare system. PBM reform should be center stage in every state legislature and in US Congress.
Keep on being silent about DIR fees and soon when indy, WAG, RAD are all gone, this is all you'll have.
Keep on being silent about DIR fees and soon when indy, WAG, RAD are all gone, this is all you'll have.
Attn anyone who does not understand what "patient steering" is - 👇THIS👇is a perfect example! The #patient is forced to use CVS pharmacy, then forced to mail-order. No choice. No recourse. No local access to #patientCare allowed.😡 Support #PBMreform! #healthcare #GreedyPBMs
Attn anyone who does not understand what "patient steering" is - 👇THIS👇is a perfect example! The #patient is forced to use CVS pharmacy, then forced to mail-order. No choice. No recourse. No local access to #patientCare allowed.😡 Support #PBMreform! #healthcare #GreedyPBMs
Mark Cuban has done a great job informing the public what a PBM is and what exactly they do. They quietly sit in the background and make lots of money. What they fear is transparency and education of the public! This is what Mark Cuban is doing and that is going to lower…
Mark Cuban has done a great job informing the public what a PBM is and what exactly they do. They quietly sit in the background and make lots of money. What they fear is transparency and education of the public! This is what Mark Cuban is doing and that is going to lower…
@ArdisWatkins @sterlingkoonce @Sam_Watts @BSGPharmD @SEANC @Sthrnbelle211 @DrDanKnecht @BoesingLoretta @mcuban @A_Ciaccia @TruthRX Also have them compare payment to the independent with payment to chains in the area. There are major differences, like what was found in Georgia
Calling all North Carolina Indy’s sounds like they could use some help at the next State Health Benefit Plan meeting. @TruthRX @SEANC @HarmacyFilm
Calling all North Carolina Indy’s sounds like they could use some help at the next State Health Benefit Plan meeting. @TruthRX @SEANC @HarmacyFilm
“The only way to fix it is to dredge it out and start over. That’s where we are with our healthcare system when it comes to PBMs.” - @DaveYostOH
“The only way to fix it is to dredge it out and start over. That’s where we are with our healthcare system when it comes to PBMs.” - @DaveYostOH
CVS Caremark leader takes a swipe at Cost Plus Drugs as a “side hustle” & @mcuban responds perfectly. 🔥 PBMs are lashing out at anyone shining a bright light on their opaque business practices which harm both patients & small businesses alike. beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/cvs-c…
Independent pharmacies deserve better from the Big 3 PBMs and so do patients.
Independent pharmacies deserve better from the Big 3 PBMs and so do patients.
These pins have been used by @TruthRX members as a reminder every time we see a negative reimbursement or a ridiculous delay tactic PBMs/insurers make us navigate to provide service to our customers. Legislators, @DGlaucomflecken, pharmacy staff & patients have worn it proudly
File a Witness Slip and ask for Support for HB4548! votervoice.net/Shares/BcEEAgZ…
Loretta Boesing @BoesingLoretta
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hogsgetslaughtered @hogsslaughtered
2K Followers 650 Following I love spinning the same lie that PBM's save healthcare money. Actually, the only thing that PBM's do well is make money, and lie.
PBMs BE GONE @ExposingPBMs
2K Followers 213 Following During this difficult time in our world, ask yourself this, why everyone is struggling yet health insurance companies, aka PBMs, are posting record profits!?
REDBEARD1969 @redlgb1969
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PBMs do not negotiate contract terms! It's a take or leave it "contract". If you take it you go out of business. If you don't, a substantial amount of your patients can no longer get their medications from you
@linakhanFTC @GOPoversight @OversightDems PBMreform needs to happen now. PCMA and their clients have crossed all possible limits of lies, deception and robbery. They must be stopped immediately. PBMS DO NOT NEGOTIATE
If Medicare is a goverment program, I wish we could contact directly with them, cutting out the middleman who stealing billions from Medicare and patients. Medicare would save billions
PBMs are forcing predatory Part D contracts on Indy pharmacies. These contracts are draconian and unethical. If HHS and CMS choose not to intervene and fix this practice, they and their administrators should be held accountable for the damage to both businesses, patients as well
The reimbursement from Caremark and ESI are at unsustainable levels. You are facing a crisis @dojphofficial @FTC @linakhanFTC Drug supply chain will be disrupted due to criminal activities of the #PBMs If you can’t find criminal activities, then look harder.
When the business model of buying and selling drugs is predicated on differential pricing and arbitrage, public disclosure of how spreads are harvested can be an existential threat to the model; hence why big PBMs won’t be publishing their real prices anytime soon.
Businessman Mark Cuban @mcuban has a straightforward question for the huge drug middleman owned by CVS: If you're as transparent about drug pricing as you claim why don't you publish prices on your website? The company didn't answer directly @martyschladen ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/04/26/mar…
When CVS CEO was a pharmacist, reimbursements were not bad. Now they run Caremark, like Aetna, who always underpaid pharmacies. Is underpayment not stealing while they make millions in profit of our backs.
An update coming in next 1 to 3 months @linakhanFTC @FTC so is it a beginning of the end or is it THE END!!!
🚨🚨🚨 "FTC looking to accelerate inquiry into prescription-drug middlemen, chair says" marketwatch.com/story/ftc-look…
@JoseLopezRPh @alignRx @TruthRX Exactly! Idk why PSAOs sign up for this shit. They need a take it or leave it approach to send to pbms. NADAC + fee or nothing. I don't really need to take commercial or medicare
Kudos to @StateRepManley & @repThadeusjones for fighting for transparency when it comes to PBMs, independent pharmacies & patients. Multiple. @truthrxillinois members were cheering you on in the meeting room & across the state. Thank you for continuing to dig into this problem!
I hope so. @linakhanFTC @RKSlaughterFTC @BedoyaFTC There is nothing more that I want than to know the future of pharmacy & medication access will be saved from the PBMs destroying it. I would love to rest and spend more time with my kids. Instead, I'm organizing protests.
🚨🚨🚨 "FTC looking to accelerate inquiry into prescription-drug middlemen, chair says" marketwatch.com/story/ftc-look…
Our responsible budgeting is paying off. Moody's cites Illinois' "continued improvement in fund balance and budget reserves ... stability in revenue and state decisions to shore up financial health,” in raising our outlook from "stable" to "positive." chicagobusiness.com/politics/moody…
Erica from the Dept of Insurance states that the Dept is limited on it's ability to regulate PBMs. They claim the Department is not receiving complaints of PBMs, the majority of complaints come from consumers and they're not aware of PBMs involvement in this. PBMs are very…
Optum is charging $1500 application fee for contracting supposedly for the cost of credentialing. I have worked in credentialing for many years on provider/hospital side. I do not do credentialing for pharmacies, but I've never heard of having to pay $1500 for credentialing.…
Legislator asks, "How do the PBM make money?" First answer is administrative fees, spread pricing, ... there is some stuttering coming from the PBM/PCMA lobbyists. PCMA is doing their usual blaming of the PSAO. The legislator rightly states, "You guys couldn't make this more…
Legislator ask PCMA, "Can you tell me the name of the largest PBMs or is that proprietary?" 😅 PBMs like to claim everything is proprietary and this legislator just took a swing at their inability to be transparent. An advocate to ensure access to biosimilars comes to speak. She…
PCMA lobbyist says that PBMs would oppose any mandatory reimbursement to pharmacies (They don't care if they reimburse pharmacies so low to the point they close.) Someone from Virginia, defends the mandatory reimbursements to pharmacy. They've done this in West Virginia. They…
Oh, now someone from the crowd comes up. He's from Prime Therapeutic. He's been in the crowd the whole time. He comes forward to speak to try to defend PBMs. One legislator asks the PCMA lobbyist, "What does a trade advisor do? Just collect dues?" 😅 They read off of paper well.
Someone from the MS Society is attending. The representative from the MS Society stated that PBMs will claim that they are adding the most efficacious drugs on the formulary, but often PBMs are more commonly only including the older, efficacious, less medications on the…
Legislators are "disturbed" that PBMs are not in the room today and that they didn't show up. I'll add that it's disappointing to not have Illinois Healthcare and Family Services there either.
It is Illinois Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) responsibility to review PBM contracts. By law, PBMs must submit their contracts HFS. The lobbyist in attendance for PCMA, the association for PBMs is unable to confirm if any contracts were submitted. No one from IL HFS is…
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