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Statement From the PBM Accountability Project of Florida on the Passage of Senate Bill 1550
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2023 Tallahassee, Fla. – Former State Senator John Grant, President of Seniors Across America and member...
Apr 19, 2023
Poll shows Florida voters support PBM regulation
Three-quarters said they would back politicians who vote for PBM regulations. New polling shows Florida voters are in favor of...
Apr 19, 2023
New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Floridians Support PBM Regulation
Respondents support policies to require PBMs to provide value, lower consumer drug costs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 18, 2023...
Apr 18, 2023
Florida Seniors Deserve Fair Prescription Prices | Opinion
Earlier this year, Governor DeSantis announced plans to address the role pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, play in the high costs so...
Apr 12, 2023
Here’s how Florida’s pharmacy benefit manager system hurts patients | Column
Health care is complicated. But for many patients, it’s made even more complicated and challenging by middlemen called pharmacy benefit...
Apr 6, 2023
Chuck Clemons: The era of PBMs is over. We’re putting Florida patients first.
Let’s fix this broken system and make sure Florida’s health care system works for patients. When I grew up in High Springs, we had a...
Apr 4, 2023
John Grant: Florida Seniors Deserve Fair Prescription Prices, PBMs Are Getting in Our Way
Earlier this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to address the role pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play in the high costs so...
Apr 4, 2023
Support legislation that could reduce your prescription costs
“Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size?” This simple question has transcended generations, intended to remind those in positions...
Mar 28, 2023
Prescription-drug price reform helps to put patients first | Commentary
Chronic diseases are those that go on for a long time and often don’t go away completely such as hemophilia, cancer, epilepsy, AIDS,...
Mar 23, 2023
Accountability project launched to lower prescription drug prices
The Pharmacy Benefit Managers Accountability Project of Florida was formed by groups across the state, intending to support legislation...
Mar 20, 2023
New coalition launches to support new restrictions on PBMs
A group of Florida business and health care leaders, policy experts, and patient advocacy groups have formed a coalition to advocate for...
Mar 16, 2023
Florida Coalition Launched to Fight Against Prescription Drug Prices
Across Florida, members of various organizations, associations, and advocacy groups have formed a new coalition to address and fight...
Mar 16, 2023
Florida Leaders Announce Coalition to Lower Prescription Drug Prices, Protect Small Businesses
The PBM Accountability Project of Florida will advocate for legislation to hold Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) accountable and protect...
Mar 15, 2023
Brodeur Files DeSantis's 'Prescription Drug Reform' Bill
Just when lawmakers, lobbyists, and public relations firms thought that the last weekend before the 2023 legislative session would be a ...
Mar 3, 2023
Drug-Prices Investigation Focused on Middlemen Opens in Congress
Panel asks CVS Caremark and other pharmacy-benefit managers about fees House Republicans have launched an investigation into the...
Mar 1, 2023
Robert Levin: State lawmakers should put patients first, stop predatory pharmacy middlemen
For years, PBMs had an unrestricted license to manipulate the health care system. Wouldn’t it be nice if, after your doctor prescribed a...
Feb 21, 2023
Michelle Flowers: Florida lawmakers can improve patient access to necessary treatments
The only party suffering is the patients. More than half of American adults have gone into medical debt in the past five years....
Feb 13, 2023
Reining in drug-market middlemen’s ‘rebate’ payments might be complicated
The FL effort is part of a national reconsideration of the power of these benefit managers, including antitrust scrutiny by the FTC....
Jan 25, 2023
House panel talks ‘unpredictable, nontransparent’ pharmacy benefit managers ahead of expected...
House panel talks ‘unpredictable, nontransparent’ pharmacy benefit managers ahead of expected bill to curb powers Proponents of pharmacy...
Jan 25, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis targets prescription drug ‘middlemen’
He hopes to make the issue a priority in the 2023 legislative session Calling for “long overdue reforms,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday...
Jan 13, 2023
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