Congress launches probe of PBMs for punitive audits| STAT

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A Home lawmaker is investigating whether or not the three largest pharmacy profit managers focused impartial pharmacies with audits in retaliation for supporting a invoice that may require the businesses to regulate funds to the retailers.

James Comer (R-Ky.), who heads the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform, late final week despatched letters to , OptumRx, and Specific Scripts, claiming that impartial pharmacies “skilled an uncommon surge in burdensome audits” after many overtly backed the laws he launched final 12 months.

STAT Plus: Washington is on the verge of true PBM reform

Referred to as the Pharmacists Struggle Again Act, the bipartisan invoice would require pharmacy profit managers collaborating within the Federal Workers Well being Advantages Program to pretty reimburse pharmacies for the precise price of medicines and to pay an inexpensive payment for allotting the medicine.