As I noted in my last post, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Sept. 20 that it had filed a complaint:  against the three largest prescription drug benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark Rx, Express Scripts (ESI), and OptumRx—and their affiliated group purchasing organizations (GPOs) for engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs, impaired patients’ access to lower list price products, and… [read post]

From Enron to Worldcom and beyond, recent years have borne witness to a number of instances of improprieties, irregularities, and outright fraud at the highest levels of corporate America. [read post]

Programs for Children with Special Health Care Needs Children's Specialty Care Office of Maternal Child and Family Health Bureau for Public Health West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources 350 Capitol Street, Room 427 Charleston, WV 25301 Phone: (304) 558-5388 Web: http://www.access.k12.wv.us State CHIP Program (health care for low-income uninsured children) WV CHIP Phone: (877) 982-2447 Web: http://www.wvchip.org Hearing Impairments Programs for Children and Youth who are… [read post]

In 2016, a billionaire backer of Trump, Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, provided support to Jill Stein, the Green candidate, according to people with knowledge of the strategy, who said the effort was done with the knowledge of some officials at the Trump campaign and its chairperson at the time, Paul Manafort. [read post]