Mark Cuban is right. American healthcare suffers from transparency problems. Let’s be clear, though: Transparency problems are actually euphemisms for information asymmetry problems. Information asymm...

CPI says health insurance costs fell 8% and drug prices 3.1% in 2026. Neither measures what you pay. We recalculated core inflation with real premium data.

Richard Chew is joined by Antonio Ciaccia, CEO and secretary of 46Brooklyn, Ohio-based nonprofit working to improve the accessibility and usability of U.S. drug pricing data. Catch "Chew's Views with...

Express Scripts, the contractor that manages the TRICARE pharmacy program, also operates its own mail-order pharmacies that participate in the network.

Experts say that if Trump follows through, the proposed tariffs could have far-reaching consequences for the cost and availability of the medications.

An audit of state Medicaid records revealed how PBMs are using complicated tactics for handling prescription drug claims that ultimately overcharge taxpayers.

Sandoz unveiled a direct-to-consumer platform, starting off with a single medication for now as the generic drugmaker adopts a system that several brand-name manufacturers are using to cut out-of-pock...

Placing new limits on the 340B drug discount program would be a fresh challenge for hospitals as they confront funding cuts.

Launch prices for prescription medicines approved by U.S. regulators in 2025 fell from the previous year, but remained high at a ​median of $216,000 due to expensive drugs for rare diseases, a new ana...

(Des Moines) -- A new report issued by the Iowa State Auditor's Office raises concerns over Pharmacy Benefit Managers' practices related to Iowa Medicaid.

COLUMBUS-The Ohio Senate passed <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/SB230">Senate Bill 230</a>, sponsored by Senator Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario), which authorizes pharmac...

Resource explains how retrospective discounts can drive uncertainty in pharmacy spendand offers practical steps purchasers can take now WASHINGTON – June 3, 2026 – The National Alliance of Healthcare ...

In an environment of inflated list prices for prescription drugs, in the United States, payers and patients rely upon significant negotiated discounts in order to afford and access medicines. These di...

The White House’s drug pricing initiative will now feature generics, relying on Cost Plus Drugs and other drug discount companies.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx joins rival pharmacy benefit managers by promising greater transparency.

For all of President Donald Trump’s showmanship, the share of Americans his policies will likely help remains slim, even if some patients do come out ahead.

Amazon has touted the kiosks as a convenient way for patients to get their prescriptions without even leaving the doctor’s office. But the machines don’t dispense substances that need to be refrigerat...

Drug price watchdogs worry President Donald Trump's plan to assess 100% tariffs on drug imports could lighten patients pocketbooks.

A federal audit on Friday accused CVS's drug middleman of overcharging the Office of Personnel management $615 million between 2018 and 2021.

So far, IVF drugs and GLP-1s have been the site's most commonly searched medications, representing a tiny fraction of the prescription drugs Americans take.

Report finds hospitals price the same cancer drugs up to 2000x apart, worsening financial toxicity and intensifying demands for real transparency.

Hospital pricing remains opaque, and the same drug at the same hospital can have a dozen different prices on the same day.

As a non-profit, we at 46brooklyn have made it our goal to provide insights into U.S. drug pricing data available in the public domain based upon the figures we’ve gathered over the prior month. Amids...

A bipartisan bill would prohibit health giants from providing services and paying for them. It would be the biggest antitrust law in decades.

The Trump administration has announced many changes to the prices of prescription drugs for Medicaid and Medicare as well as Trump RX, a website for people to get...

The FTC settled a lawsuit against Express Scripts over allegations that the company artificially inflated the price of insulin and impeded access to treatment.

Pharmaceutical companies raised prices for most medicines. Federal government policy changes then drove the reductions.

Pharmaceutical companies have raised prices on hundreds of drugs so far this month despite federal efforts to rein in drug prices.

All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their prices for 2026.

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration p...

Getting a list of what the drugs cost is just the start.

One in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time, an analysis of Medicare data found.

The drugmaker has about 23,000 employees who will be covered by Rightway.

Wyden, Crapo Introduce Bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation

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Blaming giant drug middlemen, Fruth Pharmacy is closing its stores in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia after 73 years in business.

A pharmacy chain that has served the region for decades has announced it is selling its practices.Fruth Pharmacy announced this week that it will sell its pharm

This summer, we launched a new research work that examined the costs yielded by a reborn and evolved species of the prescription drug supply chain: drug companies who are also part of larger vertica...

A little-known Cigna Group subsidiary that sells generic drugs charges prices that skew higher than many competing suppliers, according to a new analysis that raises questions about the company’s role...

In its bid to shake up drug pricing, the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company has reached a deal to sell a biosimilar version of Stelara, a widely prescribed treatment.

The findings are similar to an analysis STAT conducted, and raise questions about why UnitedHealth pays its doctors more.

A wave of pharmacy closures in Ohio and elsewhere appears to be deepening. Once the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, Rite Aid announced on its website that all of its stores are now ...

Where Policy Meets the Pharmacy Counter Featuring Congressman Jake Auchincloss Episode Summary In this episode of RealPharma , hosts Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt sit down…

Amazon to install prescription medication dispensing machines at One Medical clinics, starting in Los Angeles this December, marking its first in-person pharmacy presence.

The administration has been weighing duties for months on a range of products and ingredients in a national-security tariff investigation.

Our health care system has a pressing need for greater competition and transparency.