{"id":3363,"date":"2016-06-29T04:24:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2016-06-28T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:26:29","slug":"are-pharmacy-benefit-managers-working-to-lowering-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers Working to Lowering Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have begun looking at their huge prescription data in search of economies on behalf of their clients. However, New York, Indiana and West Virginia all passed laws this year to curb PBM\u2019s influence over prescribing decisions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-27\/pharmacy-managers-unleash-big-data\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have begun looking at their huge prescription data in search of economies on behalf of their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}