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Middlemen Are Ripping Off State Medicaid Programs

Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general just launched an investigation to determine if middlemen in the prescription drug supply chain are ripping off the state’s Medicaid program. He’s almost certainly onto something. These middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, administer drug benefit plans for Medicaid, Medicare Part D, and… Read More »