Pharmacy Times September 12, 2024

Fred Barton discusses the role of PBMs in making prescription drug decisions.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times® at the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) 2024 Payer Exchange, Fred Barton, PharmD, and vice president of clinical product and partnerships at AffirmedRx, explains the challenges of PBMs in the health care industry and the steps that need to be taken to promote more transparency.

Pharmacy Times: What factors regarding the role of PBMs were most significant in your session?

Fred Barton: Yeah, we discussed a lot today, obviously, about transparency. It’s the big kind of thing in the space. But really, what does transparency mean? What can transparency change when it comes to PBM and then also some of the factors around,...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Interview / Q&A, Pharma, Pharma / Biotech, Trends
AbbVie to write off $3.5B over failed schizophrenia drug
Drug Price Negotiation Requires Oversight To Protect Older Americans
Major PBMs Inflated Drug Prices, Pocketing $7.3 Billion Along the Way, FTC Says
FTC releases second report slamming pharmacy benefit managers
Lantheus (LNTH) Acquires Life Molecular Imaging for $750M

Share This Article