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Independent pharmacies hit Prime Therapeutics with antitrust suit over alleged price fixing

A group representing thousands of pharmacies has filed an antitrust suit against Prime Therapeutics, alleging that the company colluded with rival Express Scripts to fix prices. The lawsuit was filed ...
Healthcare Finance News

Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law

Express Scripts has sued Tennessee over the state's law banning Evernorth, the pharmacy benefits services business of The Cigna Group, from also owning pharmacies. The Tennessee FAIR Rx Act, which was ...
Healthcare Dive

Express Scripts, PCMA sue to block Tennessee law breaking up PBMs and pharmacies

Tennessee’s Freedom, Access and Integrity in Registered Pharmacy (FAIR Rx) Act prohibits PBMs, influential middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain, from owning pharmacies amid widespread worries ...

Lawmakers Target the Power of Health Insurance Giants

UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna are battling efforts to break up their control over prescription drugs.
Opinion

PBM lobby goes on the offensive

The nation’s top pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) lobbying group is going on the offensive, stepping up its advocacy efforts against the pharmaceutical industry after Congress passed a PBM industry ...
Silicon Canals

An American pays a $969 list price for the same insulin-class weight-loss pen a German gets for around €59 — and the reason traces back to a century-old Danish rescue mission

Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip ...
Fierce Healthcare

PCMA joins major PBMs in suing over Tennessee's new PBM law

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association has joined some of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers in challenging Tennessee's new law governing the industry. The Volunteer State's new ...
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Sarfaraz Khan scripts history, smokes 30 in an over off Abhishek Sharma to record fastest-ever fifty

NEW DELHI: Explosive batter Sarfaraz Khan delivered a staggering reminder of his credentials by rewriting the Vijay Hazare Trophy record books on Thursday, even as his heroics went unrewarded in ...

SC nearly approved ivermectin to be sold over-the-counter. How it was stopped

The SC House GOP caucus and hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus recently feuded over the ivermectin bill and use of the ...

FDA approves third over-the-counter opioid overdose nasal spray

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a third over-the-counter version of naloxone nasal spray Tuesday, in a move the agency said could save lives and reduce costs. The agency approved ...

FDA Broadens Access to Over-the-Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray for Opioid Overdose

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved another over-the-counter (OTC) intranasal naloxone product, Rextovy, a 4 milligram (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for the emergency ...