Attn Iowa Patients - Ask your state senator to support SF2231 to protect access to your local #pharmacy! Our ability to serve you is directly impacted by the harmful practices of #PBMs. We need this bill to pass so we can keep serving our communities! bit.ly/3JaqiJl

Patients, doctors, and pharmacists — not PBMs — should make decisions | News, Sports, Jobs - Times Republican timesrepublican.com/opinion/your-v…

A great read! qctimes.com/opinion/letter…

Incredibly proud and honored to receive this unexpected recognition. Congrats to all of the other award winners! Go Bulldogs!

Say hello 👋 to the 2022 Young Alumni Achievement award winner: Charlie Hartig, PH’09. bit.ly/3LaAR0b - CEO of @hartigdrug ✔️ - Served in roles of increased responsibility at Fortune 500 companies ✔️ Congratulations, Charlie!💙

Sensible questions on #generic Rx pricing from healthcare economist Devon M. Herrick Goodman Institute 👇 Why can't Kroger $KR offer a low price without GoodRx $GDRX (or another #PBM) when acquisition cost <3% of #prescription list price? drugch.nl/3LLhUl1

Commentary: Rural Americans Need Reliable Access to Pharmacist Services Well Beyond Covid-19 | The Daily Yonder dailyyonder.com/commentary-rur…

NACDS hails 2 years of progress against “‘pharmacy benefit manipulation” since Supreme Court Rutledge decision. Decision reinforced laws for ~ 40 other states. 100-plus state laws passed since. More work to be done. #EndPBManipulation bit.ly/3BkMwYg

The recent fight over “Medicare cuts” and Medicare Advantage is such a major deflection from how health insurance companies have taken over Medicare — a shift that has been embraced and enabled by all politicians.

✅We’re lifting the curtain on PBM middlemen who are raising drug costs for Americans. Today, Sen. Maria Cantwell & Chuck Grassley’s PBM Transparency Act to prohibit unfair or deceptive practices passed Committee. Next stop ➡️Senate floor

Today, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced the filing of an administrative action against CVS/Caremark that outlines alleged violations of the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act. Full release: oid.ok.gov/release_040323 #PBM #insurance #okl...

I’m a lawyer. I use ChatGPT daily. I feel like causing some chaos in my profession. The following is PART ONE of a series I’m calling: “Things ChatGPT can do right now that (maybe) you no longer need to pay lawyers for!” [*Please see the disclaimers at the end]

I’m possibly the poorest person ever to be mentioned by name in The Wall Street Journal twice in the same year. A factory sealed bottle, no visible signs of tampering, purchased from a secondary wholesaler with the accompanying required pedigree - that’s what I checked in. Just

Employers pay consulting firms to make sure pharmacy benefit managers aren’t ripping them off with unfair prescription drug contracts. But a hidden flow of money between consulting conglomerates & PBMs compromises that relationship. Read our investigation: statnews.com/2023/06/20/pbm…

How the prescription drug supply chain is killing local pharmacies pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Report: North Dakota’s Pharmacy Ownership Law Leads to Better Pharmacy Care ilsr.org/report-pharmac… via Institute for Local Self-Reliance

What CVS Pharmacy’s New Cost-Plus Reimbursement Approach Means for PBMs, Pharmacies, Plan Sponsors, and Prescription Prices My $0.02 on @cvshealth $CVS investor day announcements. ==> drugch.nl/418jwP8 drugch.nl/418jwP8

CVS's drug middle man heroically announces it's going to solve a problem it helped create; simultaneously admits that it hasn't been reimbursing competitor pharmacies based on what those pharmacies paid for drugs. nytimes.com/2023/12/05/bus…

#PBMs’ track record is clear: pharmacies they own get preferential treatment while competitors get squeezed out & communities across the country are left without access. Federal lawmakers must act to break their grip over the entire healthcare system. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/p…

Drake's last three head coaches are all in the Big Ten 🤯 Ben McCollum — Iowa Darian DeVries — Indiana Niko Medved — Minnesota The Drake job 📈