A consortium of Philadelphia pharmacists sued discount drug card aggregator GoodRx and the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, alleging the companies employed anticompetitive practices, including price fixing, to restrain competition.

A group of legislators is calling on the Department of Justice to dig into whether pharmacy benefit managers played a role in the opioid epidemic.

The cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. isn’t like the tabs for other products. The price for a single medicine can range by thousands of dollars depending on the drug plan.

Employers worried about lawsuits from workers charging they're not spending their health care dollars wisely are increasingly casting a more critical eye on the middlemen that help manage their drug costs.

Nikki Bryant is striving for profitability at her town square business while battling the influential pharmacy benefit managers that threaten independent pharmacists across the U.S.

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drug stores, creating "pharmacy deserts" across the country.

This brief provides an overview of the Medicare Part D program, plan availability, enrollment, and spending and financing, based on KFF analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Congressional Budget Office, and other sources.

Research finds that most people take at least one prescription drug and most see their benefits to society, yet majorities see these drugs as too expensive and three in ten struggle to afford their medicines.

Local PBM markets are on average highly concentrated—as defined by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—which suggests low competition among these pharmaceutical supply-chain middlemen.

The Federal Trade Commission has taken legal action against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers, accusing the drug middlemen of inflating insulin prices and steering patients toward higher-cost insulin products to increase their profits.