Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A federal judge has blocked a new Arkansas law that would have prohibited pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs—middlemen companies who set drug prices—from owning their own ...

A U.S. federal court judge has blocked first-of-its-kind legislation enacted in Arkansas to ban pharmacy benefit managers ((PBMs)) from owning or operating pharmacies in the state starting next year.