Arkansas banned pharmacy middlemen from selling medicine, but CVS says the new law could raise costs and cut off care for thousands.

Third federal lawsuit says Arkansas’s ban on PBM‑owned pharmacies violates commerce clause and limits drug access.

In June 2018 Arkansas became the first ... a telephone number 27.8 Paper form in the mail 14.5 In person at doctor’s office or Medicaid office 13.9 Internet website, using ...

The provisional number of drug overdose ... s budget changed Medicaid policy to significantly expand treatment for opioid use disorder by removing Medicaid prior authorization barriers, creating ...

A Rhode Island hospital kept billing for nursing home care and Medicaid kept writing checks, no questions asked. No questions about costs as high as $550,000 per patient, per year. No questions about ...

"It is a medication that's gotten ... is restricting the number of people on Medicaid who can use the pricey diabetes drugs for weight-loss purposes. Pennsylvania's Medicaid coverage of the ...

Republicans believe the added services in the waivers — approved last year under the Biden administration, but not yet implemented — will balloon Pennsylvania’s Medicaid costs, which GOP ...

But Republican leaders are likely to block it. Sanders, meanwhile, said she wants to keep Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion in some form. Arkansas was one of a few Southern states that expanded ...

Most of the new insurance laws expand coverage, by both commercial and Medicaid insurers, on certain prescription drugs ... where a patient has to try cheaper forms of treatment before moving ...

St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro will open Arkansas’ first Maternal Life360 HOME this month, an expanded Medicaid program anticipated for more than two years, the Arkansas Department of ...

to fill a prescription. “The pharmacy told me I didn’t have insurance,” Gobara said. Arkansas is the only state that has not taken the step to expand what’s called postpartum Medicaid ...

DeFoor released a performance audit today that showed Pennsylvania taxpayers paid $7 million more for Medicaid prescription drug ... Spread pricing in any form is hurting the very people we ...