This week, Iowa Pharmacist and Nevada, IA Mayor Brett Barker was featured on Fox News to discuss rising drug costs and how to keep your prescription prices down. As Barker explained, "An underlying reason that drug prices are where they are and why list prices are high would be pharmacy benefit managers and I think a lot of viewers may not know who those are."
PBMs are "the middlemen between your pharmacy and your doctor's office and your employer that are making the decisions on the back end - they touch almost 90% of prescription claims in the United States of America," Barker said. "They're really the driver behind a lot of the prices we see."
Watch his interview here.
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