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Assam's Health Minister, Ashok Singhal, urged government doctors to prescribe hospital pharmacy and generic medicines to reduce patient expenses. He announced a WhatsApp helpline for reporting ...

The Federal Trade Commission suggests that PBMs profit from specialty generic drugs such as those for cancer and HIV and steer patients to their own pharmacies. Pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) ...

The choice between generic and brand-name drugs represents a significant intersection of healthcare quality and affordability, affecting millions of patients nationwide. Recent studies indicate ...

Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in revenue from marking up the prices of dozens of specialty generic drugs ...

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The FTC’s findings—which analyzed 51 specialty generic drugs from 2017 to 2022—showed these pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs') affiliated pharmacies spun up $7.3 billion in excess revenue ...