{"id":11317,"date":"2018-08-28T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2018-08-28T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:15:00","slug":"john-arnold-are-pharmacy-benefit-managers-the-good-guys-or-bad-guys-of-drug-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11317","title":{"rendered":"John Arnold: Are pharmacy benefit managers the good guys or bad guys of drug pricing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By John Arnold for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">In the ongoing debate over drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry has been highly effective in shifting the blame to the middlemen \u2014 in particular to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/08\/22\/pbms-trump-enemy-solution\/\">pharmacy benefit managers<\/a>. As they currently operate, pharmacy benefit managers are part of the problem. But if incentives were realigned, pharmacy benefit managers could \u2014 and should \u2014 play more of a vital role in controlling runaway prices for prescription drugs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/08\/27\/pharmacy-benefit-managers-good-or-bad\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=a3a20492aa-Pharmalot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-a3a20492aa-149624405\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By John Arnold for STAT) In the ongoing debate over drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry has been highly effective in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11318,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}