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Philadelphia sues the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers over the opioid crisis

The city says CVS, UnitedHealth Group, and Express Scripts, through a network of subsidiaries, violated Philadelphia and Pennsylvania consumer protection laws. Read More

Sprouts Farmers Market Sues PBMs, Drug Manufacturers Over High Insulin Prices

Sprouts employs approximately 35,000 associates and operates more than 450 stores in 24 states nationwide. The Phoenix-based grocer is No. 52 on The PG 100, Progressive Grocer’s 2025 list of the top ... Read More

Direct-To-Consumer Sales Can Fulfill Trump’s Drug Pricing Promises

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "The White House would be wise to push DTC programs as a ... Read More

Drugmaker sues Colorado over first of its kind law setting price ceiling on drug

The pharmaceutical company Amgen is suing the Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board after the price of one of its drugs was capped. Read More

Factbox-Pharma companies announce direct-to-consumer sales and price cuts in US

(Reuters) -Several pharmaceutical companies have said they will sell drugs direct to patients in the U.S. and offered discounts following President Donald Trump's calls to bring down drug prices and ... Read More

Wellmark sues Iowa Insurance Division over enforcement of pharmacy benefit law

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern ... Read More

Eli Lilly Sues 2 Texas Companies Over Weight Loss Drug Replicas

Two Texas compounding pharmacies are the latest to get sued in Eli Lilly’s multistate battle to stop sales of replica medications for diabetes and weight loss. Read More

Kentucky launches probe into drug overcharges by pharmacy benefit managers

(Reuters) - Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear said on Thursday he had launched an investigation into allegations that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) had overcharged state health insurance ... Read More

Wellmark sues to block enforcement of new Iowa law on pharmacy benefit managers

Iowa’s largest health insurer, Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is suing the Iowa insurance commissioner to block enforcement of a new state law that attempts to regulate pharmacy benefit managers. Read More

A new bill would make drug pricing more fair for Californians | Opinion

As the president and CEO of Ascendiun, the nonprofit parent company of Blue Shield of California — one of California’s largest health insurers — I believe that all health care decision-making should ... Read More

Gavin Newsom signs CA bill to lower medication costs, rein in insurance middlemen

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed Senate Bill 41, a bill that would impose regulations on insurance-industry middlemen who are accused of driving up prices for prescription drugs, and ... Read More

Wellmark sues to block enforcement of new law on pharmacy benefit managers

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa’s largest health insurer, Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is suing the Iowa insurance commissioner to block enforcement of a new state law that ... Read More