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Medicare Part D in 2024: The Seven Largest Companies' Preferred Pharmacy Networks and the Coming Collapse of the PDP Market

Drug Channels

Our exclusive analysis of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) data reveals that preferred cost sharing pharmacy networks will maintain their dominance as a component of Part D benefit design. For 2024: 94% of stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDP) will have a preferred network.

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DCI’s Top 15 Specialty Pharmacies of 2022: Five Key Trends About Today’s Marketplace

Drug Channels

In Drug Channels Institute’s list of the top 15 pharmacies of 2022 , we show that central-fill, mail pharmacies operated by large PBMs and health insurers have displaced retail chains as the largest prescription drug dispensers by revenues. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Medicare Part D in 2024: Smaller Pharmacies Abandon Preferred Pharmacy Networks

Drug Channels

In a previous article , I highlighted the largest pharmacy chains that will participate in the 2024 Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDP). Plans from Aetna, Humana, WellCare, and UnitedHealthcare will not have any independent pharmacies participating via PSAOs as preferred pharmacies. Look out below!

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Beyond the Big Three PBMs: Examining a Potential Trend

Perficient: Drug Development

Prescription drugs reach patients through a complex web of entities. Among these, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a crucial role, handling reimbursements and negotiations with drug manufacturers and pharmacies. Unpacking Concerns in the PBM Landscape: The Catalysts The PBM landscape is rife with tension.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, February 2021: Accumulator Problems, Humana + ESI, White Bagging Battles, Buy-and-Bill Economics, and Pharmacy Hero Dave Marley

Drug Channels

Let’s melt away this foul February with our monthly selection of scorching news from around the drug channel. In this issue: Payers confess: Patients lose from copay accumulators Humana joins the Express Scripts GPO Hospitals vs. PBMs over specialty pharmacy white bagging Let’s all follow the Buy-and-Bill Dollar! More to come.