Pharmacy Benefit Consultants - Linda Cahn

Federal PBM Probe Culminates Decades of M&A

14 Jun, 2022

By Nona Tepper and Maya Goldman, June 14, 2022

Insurers Slam Critical Drug-Pricing Research But Can’t Vouch For Their Own

09 Dec, 2021

By Marty Schladen, December 9, 2021.

Kansas audited its $80 million CVS prescription plan, but it’s still shrouded in mystery

01 Oct, 2021

By Celia Llopis-Jansen, October, 1, 2021.

Expert warns: Ohio Medicaid Poised for Big Trouble

21 Oct, 2020

By Marty Schladen, August 27, 2020

Is Ohio’s Revamp On Drug Middlemen Working

08 Dec, 2019

By Cathy Candisky and Darrel Rowland, December 8, 2019.

Even After A Few Years of Drug Price Reforms Across the US, PBMs Are Still Finding Ways Around Them

08 Dec, 2019

By Marty Schladen, December 8, 2019.

Ohio Medicaid Still Hemorrhaging Money, Expert Testifies

21 Nov, 2019

By Cathy Candisky, November 21, 2019

New ‘Transparent’ Setup for Medicaid Drug Purchase will be Secret to Public

18 Apr, 2019

By Marty Schladen. April 18, 2019.

More Sunshine, Say Some PBM Forecasts. More of the Dark Arts, Say Others.

01 Mar, 2019

By Robert Calandra. March 1, 2019.

State’s New Drug Setup Still Riddled With Loopholes

10 Feb, 2019

By Marty Schladen. February 10, 2019.

‘PBM Busters’ Find Employers Unaware of Price Mark-Ups By Drug Middlemen

24 Dec, 2018

By Lucas Sullivan. December 24, 2018.

CVS Caremark Wants To Make Drug Rebates a Thing of the Past

06 Dec, 2018

December 6, 2018.

CVS Boasts That A New Pricing Model Will Lower Drug Costs For Health Plans. Will It?

05 Dec, 2018

By Ed Silverman. December 5, 2018.

FDA Promised a ‘Lower-Cost Option’ to Epi-Pen, But the Price Isn’t Any Lower

27 Nov, 2018

By Ed Silverman. November 27, 2018.

What Rebates? Express Scripts Touts A New Plan To Appease Critics Of The Opaque Drug-Pricing System

13 Nov, 2018

By Ed Silverman. November 13, 2018.

More States, Including Pa., Are Taking On Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Demanding To See the Savings In Medicaid

09 Nov, 2018

By Catherine Dunn. November 9, 2018.

The Unclear Benefits of Drug Price Coalitions

27 Sep, 2018

By Bob Herman. September 27, 2018.

Never Mind the Rebates. Maybe Behind-the-Scenes Fees Are Boosting Drug Prices

16 Aug, 2018

By Ed Silverman. August 16, 2018.

In Prescription Drug Business, Will Amazon Partner with PBMs, Or Seek to Conquer Them?

16 Jul, 2018

By Casey Ross. July 16, 2018.

Ohio Peels Back The Curtain On A Lucrative PBM Profit Center

22 Jun, 2018

By Ed Silverman. June 22, 2018.

AWP: Three little letters that could affect your wallet and health

14 Jun, 2018

By Darrel Rowland and Cathy Candisky, June 13, 2018

What New Jersey’s Drug Plan Do-Over Says About the Industry

16 May, 2018

By Bob Herman. May 16, 2018.

Hey, Amazon: As a pharmacy benefit manager, you could create real competition for drug prices

15 Nov, 2017

Op-Ed by Linda Cahn. November 15, 2017.

Bloomberg Article on PBMs – quotes Cahn

17 Mar, 2017

Drug Costs Too High? Fire the Middleman Caterpillar’s lowered drug bills show why pharmacy benefit managers are under fire. by Neil Weinberg and Robert Langreth March 3, 2017 at 5:00:12 AM EST From

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