Opinion
What North Carolina can learn from Tennessee about healthcare
These reforms are not simply about insurance or pharmacy regulations. They are about whether patients retaining meaningful choices in their care.
News
BCBSNC wins State Health Plan TPA, PBM contracts
In addition to voting on preferred provider hospital systems, benefit changes, and premiums for 2027 at its Friday board meeting, the North Carolina State Health Plan Board of Trustees also voted to bring BCBSNC back after a three-year hiatus.
Opinion
Keep prescriptions affordable and accessible for North Carolinians
I am worried about possible legislation here in NC that would compromise patient safety and impede PBMs’ ability to manage costs for patients like the ones I serve.
Opinion
Will Congress raise NC’s prescription drug costs?
As a concerned North Carolinian, consumer of healthcare, and an accomplished healthcare executive, I know how important it is for Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis to stand up to the pharmaceutical giants keeping drug prices in North Carolina so high. Even though North Carolina already ranks 37th out of 50 states on healthcare affordability burdens — a problem...
Opinion
PBMs deserve scrutiny, not excessive regulation
The latest debate in the North Carolina General Assembly is one over pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs. Senate Bill 257 and a House committee substitute (PCS) to that bill represent similar but competing visions of regulating PBMs. Though sometimes villainized, PBMs play an important role in the U.S.’s third-party payer health care system. PBMs deserve...
News
Medicaid Drug Purchases Inflate Taxpayer Costs, Group Says
RALEIGH — North Carolina could save more than $3 billion in Medicaid prescription costs over the coming decade by negotiating discounts through pharmacy networks and using more generic drugs, a national trade organization says. But the group representing pharmacists in the state say such a plan would disrupt relationships between patients and pharmacists.
