Your access to medication and your health depends on three little letters, where most patients are kept in the dark.
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For the most part, patients are unaware of the increasingly powerful middleman in determining the availability and pricing of prescription products and devices. These PBMs are now receiving more attention as health insurers and pharmacies increasingly consolidate, and PBMs are changing the entire process in ways never considered, and transparency is an issue. In fact, transparency is extremely difficult because of the inlocking nature of relationships.