Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) Harm Pharmacies and Patients Alike

Pharmacists play an essential role in the healthcare delivery system. Each day, their top priority is helping patients access medications they depend on to meet their healthcare goals. Every effort is made to ensure that medications are provided at affordable prices. Pharmacists appreciate the value of pharmaceutical innovation; yet rising prescription drug costs represent an ever-pressing problem to managing chronic diseases. Pharmacists continue to raise the alarm about ongoing threats from PBMs and other factors to the delivery and accessibility of affordable medications.