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MedBen Rx Solutions Let You Call the Shots

Jan 24, 2022 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rx Costs, Savings, Transparency

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are profiting at the expense of consumers and payers, finds a new report from the PBM Accountability Group. MedBen Rx counters such tactics with pharmacy solutions that ensure you know exactly what a drug costs. From Benefits Pro:...

Get Total Transparency in Pharmacy Management

Jul 12, 2021 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rx Costs, Savings, Transparency

Lack of disclosure is a common theme for many pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), be it with employers or state governments. From Benefits Pro: “At least a half-dozen states and the District of Columbia are investigating pharmacy benefit managers, The Wall Street...

Don’t “Rein In” PBMs… Cut Them Out with MedBen Rx

Dec 10, 2020 | MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Transparency

A Columbus Dispatch article outlines the struggles Ohio Medicaid has experienced in trying to “rein in the middlemen in the prescription drug supply chain” – pharmacy benefit managers. Their year-long effort to replace outsider PBMs with a state-run PBM...

“Wasteful Drugs” Cost Employers $6 Billion Annually

Sep 18, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rebates, Rx Costs, Specialty Drugs, Transparency

Employers could save billion of dollars every year by avoiding “wasteful drugs,” according to BenefitsPro. Guidelines from Pacific Business Group on Health and and researchers from Johns Hopkins University identified 49 high-price medications with less...

The MedBen Rx Advocate Model: Pass-through Transparency, No Margin Manipulation

May 28, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, MedBen Rx Advocate, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Rx Costs, Savings, Transparency

A recent Benefits Pro article highlights two pharmacy benefits management (PBM) business models: traditional and pass-through. MedBen Rx Advocate begins with the pass-through approach but takes it one step further by eliminating margin manipulation. The traditional...

MedBen Rx Advocate Eliminates the “Spread”

Oct 18, 2019 | MedBen Rx, MedBen Rx Advocate, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rx Costs, Spread Pricing, Transparency

A key to reducing pharmacy plan costs is to eliminate the use of spread pricing – the difference between what pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) charge employer plans for drugs and what the actual pharmacy pays for them. Often, this “spread” can be substantial, as PBMs...
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