‘Transparency-Rx’ Execs Explain Why They’re Breaking Rank, Backing PBM Reform

  • Sep 28, 2023

    As PBMs continue to face an onslaught of regulatory scrutiny, their main trade group — the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) — has been arguing that attempts to alter the industry’s dominant business practices would do nothing but hand Big Pharma a victory and erode PBMs’ ability to bring down drug prices.

    Now, however, a new coalition of smaller PBMs that promote a “transparent” business model has entered the scene and is aligning itself not with PCMA, but with attempts to overhaul the PBM industry.

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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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