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Bipartisan House Members Push for Pharmacy Payment Reform

27 February 2025 10:20 AM
BCI 24 News Network

Congress aims to lower prescription prices by regulating the practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), companies that lawmakers say drive up costs, creating hardship for patients, and small businesses, and an added burden to taxpayers.
PBMs, which are largely invisible to the general public, negotiate the prices insurers pay for medications, determine the amount consumers pay, and process insurance drug claims.
Members of both parties pledged to pass legislation regulating the way PBMs operate to increase transparency in drug pricing and boost competition.
“PBMS are the pharmaceutical supply chains hidden middlemen that are driving up costs for prescription medications, delaying access to necessary treatments, adding hoops for patients to jump through, and robbing hope from patients,” Chairman Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) said at a Feb. 26 meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health….