Senate Finance Committee PBM Reform Results In ‘Decimal Dust’ Of Savings

 
• By Sarah Karlin-Smith
  
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A focus on transparency, impacts of vertical integration and concerns about increasing government costs shows in the Congressional Budget Office score of the Senate pharmacy benefits manager reform bill.

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CBO projects relatively small savings from the Senate Finance PBM reform bill. • Source: Shutterstock

The Senate Finance Committee’s pharmacy benefits manager reform bill is anticipated to save the federal government $1.73bn over a decade, a relatively small sum given the cost of the Medicare and Medicaid programs they would modify, which illustrates the challenges of taking on drug prices by going after supply chain “middlemen.”

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  • The CBO projects $1.73bn in savings from the Senate Finance Committee’s PBM reform effort.

The Congressional Budget Office released a preliminary score of the Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act on 24 July...

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