Better controls on pharmacy middlemen
When a well-established local pharmacy can’t fill a prescription because doing so would cost the pharmacy money, it signals a serious...
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Oct 19
The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts”...
Oct 18
Warped by WashingtonAmerica's Medical Supply is in Crisis Again
One hurricane is enough to do it—to expose how fouled up our medical supply chain is. In the wake of Helene , physicians and nurses in...
Feb 22
A Bipartisan Coalition of 39 State Attorneys General Urge Congressional Action on Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter to Congressional leaders on behalf of 39 attorneys general who urge...
Jan 24
Florida PBM Law Limits Mail-Order Prescription Drug Programs, Requires State Filings by Employer Plans
Employers that cover Florida employees under their prescription drug plans are now prohibited from imposing mandatory mail-order...
Jan 22
Michelle Flowers: Ensuring timely access to innovative, affordable cancer care in Florida
Let’s work together to pass simple solutions that will make all the difference for patients. In 2023, an estimated 162,410 people in...
Jan 12
Florida can decrease patient costs for medications
Almost 500,000 Floridians are living with a chronic illness such as lupus, epilepsy, or HIV. Thankfully, many of these chronic conditions...
Jul 13, 2023
Gus Bilirakis Offers Bill to Provide Orals Drugs in a Timely Manner
This week, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., introduced the “Timely Access to Clinical Treatment (TACT) Act” which “would require that...
Jun 10, 2023
Health leaders highlight PBM regulation and other initiatives that aim to help Floridians save money
Healthcare leaders discussed efforts that aim to increase access to prescription drugs and lower their costs during the 2023 Florida...
Jun 1, 2023
Mystery of savings at pharmacy counter
One way or another, it looks like the drug supply chain middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are going to be pulled...
May 23, 2023
How DeSantis Is Trying to Lure Older Voters Away From Trump
As a 44-year-old member of Generation X, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida might be an unlikely candidate to wrest his party’s older voters...
May 19, 2023
Opinion: Florida patients are done with the games PBMs play
Few Floridians know that three major health insurance companies, CVS/Aetna, United Health Group and Cigna currently rank fourth, fifth...
May 17, 2023
Ralph Massullo: PBM reform legislation is a win for Floridians
I would like to thank Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, House Speaker Paul Renner, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and the bill sponsors for...
May 4, 2023
Groups react to new Prescription Drug Reform Act after Gov. DeSantis delivers his signature
Supporters are celebrating 'historic' reforms and the beginning of lower prescription costs. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed the...
May 4, 2023
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers
After lawmakers passed the changes Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis moved quickly to sign a bill that will place restrictions on pharmacy...
May 3, 2023
PBM Accountability Project of Florida Statement on Historic PBM Reform Legislation Signed into Law
Tallahassee, Fla. – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis today signed into law the “Prescription Drug Reform Act” (SB 1550 by Senator Jason...
May 3, 2023
Gov. DeSantis ends pharmacy benefit inaction, signs PBM legislation he championed
Just hours after legislators passed it, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law another of his top priorities — an attempt to rein in...
May 2, 2023
Florida Senate Takes Aim At ‘Step Therapy’
The Florida Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would allow Medicaid beneficiaries with “serious” mental illness to avoid a...
Apr 25, 2023
Poll: Vast majority of Floridians support regulations to lower prescription drug costs
According to new polling data, a vast majority of Floridians support regulations on pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. The data was...
Apr 19, 2023
Statement From the PBM Accountability Project of Florida on the Passage of Senate Bill 1550
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2023 Tallahassee, Fla. – Former State Senator John Grant, President of Seniors Across America and member...
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