Pharmacy benefits

Many pharmacy benefit managers promote discounts and drug rebates that may look good on paper, but often provide no transparency of true costs. This can result in employers paying much more than they should.

By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.

By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Despite arguments to the contrary, the combination is unlikely to lower prescription costs for employers or employees.

Addiction recovery costs are skyrocketing for companies, but employee education on drug usage can help stem the tide.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Aetna will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members, in the latest move to address complaints about the cost of medicine.

Soaring drug prices are hammering smaller employers. Here are three ways benefit brokers can help.

The drug supply chain is being drawn even more taut, and the power of the big players even greater.