The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing Thursday, which discussed how the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act would affect practices by pharmacy benefit managers, including clawbacks. Some questioned why PBMs are even necessary.
Determined to explore more avenues to curb price hikes, the Trump administration is signaling that it is willing to consider what the industry regards as something of a nuclear option to address a recalcitrant problem.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System chose Appriss Health to enable integration of Louisiana's prescription drug monitoring program information into its Epic EHR system. Ochsner CMIO Todd Burstain said the service went live in October of 2017.
The nation’s largest manager of employer prescription drug plan has been aggressively negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies, in what Wall Street notes as a continued trend of pricing pressures facing drugmakers. Reuters reports that Express Scripts on Monday came to a more favorable agreement with AbbVie Inc’s recently approved hep c treatment and largely will […]
In nursing homes around the country, prescription drugs get thrown out in huge amounts regularly – for reasons like they just aren’t finished, there’s an allergic reaction or a patient passed away. Despite the overload of prescriptions present in nursing homes, they are forbidden by law from dispensing pills (unused or untouched) from one patient to another. This is […]