The Rio-based network of independent pharmacies blames drug industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...

has sued the top three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the US for operating a "perverse drug rebate system" that it claims artificially inflated the prices of insulin products. The lawsuit ...

Dan Strause, co-founder, former CEO and current board chairman of Rio-based Hometown Pharmacy, said the low payments for drugs by pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, and requirements that many ...

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