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✦ Officials in as many as seven states plus the District of Columbia are now probing PBM business practices, The Wall Street Journal reported on May 11. One of those states, Ohio, has filed lawsuits against Cigna ...
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✦ The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted to keep most indications for a handful of immune checkpoint inhibitors that target programmed death-1/programmed death ligand-1 (PD-1/PD-L1) and received acce...
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✦ Oklahoma lawmakers at press time were attempting to replace Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt’s plan to transition fee-for-service Medicaid beneficiaries to a managed care model later this year, which will include ...
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✦ The state budget recently unveiled by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) would delay the state’s move to carve out pharmacy benefits from its Medicaid managed care contracts, Modern Healthcare reported. Instead of...
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✦ First-quarter 2021 revenues for UnitedHealth Group increased 9% from the year-ago quarter to $70.2 billion, driven in part by growth in its UnitedHealthcare business, which recorded quarterly revenue of $55.1 b...
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By AIS Health Staff
✦ CVS Health Corp. said on March 31 that its PBM division Caremark will “continue to serve the government-wide Service Benefit Plan” in a deal effective Jan. 1, 2022. The contract is an arrangement with carrie...
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✦ Spending on specialty medications accounted for more than half of total drug spend for the first time last year. That’s according to the Evernorth 2020 Drug Trend Report, released in March, which noted that le...
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✦ Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) has hired an external law firm to investigate whether Centene Corp. overcharged the state when managing pharmacy benefits for its Medicaid managed care program, the Da...
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✦ Federal Medicaid officials this week issued letters to Arkansas and New Hampshire informing them of the Biden administration’s formal revocation of their “community engagement” waivers. The Supreme Court...
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✦ Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota said on March 4 that it’s suing Vyera Pharmaceuticals and its infamous former CEO Martin Shkreli, claiming they “intentionally monopolized the pharmaceutical market fo...
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