{"id":1565449,"date":"2024-03-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prospect.org\/health\/2024-03-21-pbm-insurer-mafia-community-pharmacies\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:00:00","slug":"the-pbm-insurer-mafia-comes-for-community-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/21\/the-pbm-insurer-mafia-comes-for-community-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"The PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna\u2019s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs\u2014independent pharmacies\u2014out of business.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/health\/2024-03-21-pbm-insurer-mafia-community-pharmacies\/\">TAP : The American Prospect<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna\u2019s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs\u2014independent pharmacies\u2014out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565450,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565449\/revisions\/1565450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}