CVS Caremark is growing its diabetes care program with the goal of greater prevention, the company said July 30. The PBM first launched Transform Diabetes Care (TDC) in December 2016 and since then has seen notable results, with more than half of members enrolled in the program went from [Read more...]
Meeting in Charleston at the Capitol earlier this week, the West Virginia Legislature continued to weigh whether it would be worth the state joining other states to get federal permission to import some prescription drugs from Canada, one way some states are trying to reduce prescription prices for [Read more...]
In a letter to West Virginia Senators Joe Manchin, III, and Shelley Moore Capito, WVPA Executive Director Richard Stevens requested the state's two senators support the Senate Finance Committee to include provisions addressing pharmacy direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees which the Committee [Read more...]
NACDS contends that "direct and indirect remuneration" (DIR) fees must be addressed in drug-pricing legislation. NACDS says DIR fees have exploded by 45,000 percent from 2010 and 2017 and are inflating seniors' out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and forcing pharmacies out of [Read more...]
