NACDS RxIMPACT is calling for your help to aid in our community’s efforts to advance Massachusetts PBM reform to help prevent harm to patients, communities, and pharmacies!
PBMs – best known as ‘pharmaceutical benefit manipulators’ – have complicated and exploited the system for their own profit and at the expense of patients, communities, employers, taxpayers, and pharmacies. These tactics drive up prescription drug prices that force pharmacies to provide medications below their cost to acquire and dispense them. Let’s set the PBM record straight!
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will conduct a Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency hearing on Tuesday, June 6th to review over 20 bills – some of which align with key elements of the NACDS Principles for PBM reform. NACDS RxIMPACT is calling on all advocates to send letters to share with legislators an impactful PBM “explainer” video called “Free Claire.”
A Morning Consult survey found following exposure to the video, the share of those who believe PBMs are businesses looking out for their bottom lines increased 30% (from 43% to 73%). It also found 72% agree the video suggests something new to them about PBMs, and that what the video says about PBMs is believable. In open-ended responses, respondents mentioned themes such as greed, manipulation, PBMs’ role in obstructing patient-pharmacist relationships, and keeping savings for themselves as the main impression they thought the video conveyed about PBMs.
PBM reforms must be enacted into law as part of a total approach to turning the tide on PBM abusive practices that force patients and others to pay more for their medicines, that limits patients’ access to their pharmacist, that restricts patients’ access to the medicines right for them, and that jeopardizes the pharmacies on which patients rely.
Help NACDS RxIMPACT promote PBM reform by sending a letter to your state legislators in Massachusetts! Simply type in your contact information, click "Send Message," and the system will generate personalized communications to each of your state legislators.
If you have any questions or would like any assistance, please contact Ben Pearlman via telephone at 703-837-4353 or email or Heidi Ecker via telephone at 703-837-4121 or email.
PBMs – best known as ‘pharmaceutical benefit manipulators’ – have complicated and exploited the system for their own profit and at the expense of patients, communities, employers, taxpayers, and pharmacies. These tactics drive up prescription drug prices that force pharmacies to provide medications below their cost to acquire and dispense them. Let’s set the PBM record straight!
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will conduct a Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency hearing on Tuesday, June 6th to review over 20 bills – some of which align with key elements of the NACDS Principles for PBM reform. NACDS RxIMPACT is calling on all advocates to send letters to share with legislators an impactful PBM “explainer” video called “Free Claire.”
A Morning Consult survey found following exposure to the video, the share of those who believe PBMs are businesses looking out for their bottom lines increased 30% (from 43% to 73%). It also found 72% agree the video suggests something new to them about PBMs, and that what the video says about PBMs is believable. In open-ended responses, respondents mentioned themes such as greed, manipulation, PBMs’ role in obstructing patient-pharmacist relationships, and keeping savings for themselves as the main impression they thought the video conveyed about PBMs.
PBM reforms must be enacted into law as part of a total approach to turning the tide on PBM abusive practices that force patients and others to pay more for their medicines, that limits patients’ access to their pharmacist, that restricts patients’ access to the medicines right for them, and that jeopardizes the pharmacies on which patients rely.
Help NACDS RxIMPACT promote PBM reform by sending a letter to your state legislators in Massachusetts! Simply type in your contact information, click "Send Message," and the system will generate personalized communications to each of your state legislators.
If you have any questions or would like any assistance, please contact Ben Pearlman via telephone at 703-837-4353 or email or Heidi Ecker via telephone at 703-837-4121 or email.