After Big, Bruising 2023, This Year May Be Quieter for PBMs

  • Jan 11, 2024

    Although 2023 trained a harsh spotlight on the country’s dominant PBMs — pressuring some to introduce new pharmacy pricing models — industry observers tell AIS Health, a division of MMIT, that this year may not be nearly as paradigm-shifting.

    Take, for example, potential policy action aimed at changing PBMs’ increasingly criticized business models, particularly those associated with the Big Three PBMs: The Cigna Group’s Express Scripts, CVS Health Corp.’s Caremark, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx.

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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