Medicare is on pace to waste $126 million this year overpaying for one generic drug. The drug is lamotrigine ER, the extended-release version of a widely used medication for seizures and bipolar disorder. It's an old generic with several manufacturers, and its price has been coming down. If you pay through insurance, though, you'd never know it. Medicare is paying nearly $200 per prescription. At our pharmacy, a 3-month supply costs about $20 without insurance.

A distributor is sending pharmacies a flyer for diphenhydramine oral solution, the same active ingredient as the Benadryl in your medicine cabinet. It's a 118 mL bottle, about 4 ounces. The listed average wholesale price is $2,500. The listed wholesale acquisition cost is $2,083.33.

Obamacare premiums are set to rise by double digits again next year. It's the second year in a row. Insurers selling plans on the ACA marketplace are asking for a median increase of 15% for 2027, according to KFF. And the people who already got squeezed this year, when extra federal subsidies expired, are the ones paying for it.

A hospital buys a cancer drug at a steep discount. Medicare pays the hospital full price plus 6% anyway. And the senior getting the drug pays 20% coinsurance on the full price too. That's how Medicare pays for drugs bought through the 340B program today. The federal government just proposed to stop it. Starting in 2027, CMS wants Medicare to pay for 340B drugs based on what hospitals actually pay for them, and the hospital lobby is fighting back hard.

Kaiser Permanente made $5.3 billion in net income in a single quarter this year. For five years, it couldn't pay its nurses correctly.

On Monday, the FTC sent warning letters to 24 of "the nation's largest healthcare services" over how they handle price transparency. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson didn't soften it: "Healthcare providers must disclose their prices to consumers and must do so starting today. If they do not, then the FTC will take them to court."

UnitedHealth approved a Texan's surgery. Then it un-approved it. After the surgery. The patient did everything right. They got prior authorization for a procedure at a surgery center in Austin. United signed off. The patient had the procedure. Then, according to the Texas Attorney General's office, United pulled the approval, refused to pay, and left the patient holding a large medical bill

Here is the full picture. Walgreens' 100 closures this year are part of a plan to shut roughly 1,200 stores over three years. Rite Aid, once the third-largest chain in the country, went bankrupt twice, closed its final stores in October 2025, and no longer exists as a physical pharmacy at all, roughly 1,250 locations gone. CVS closed about 900 between 2022 and 2024, then another 270 after that. Add it up and America has lost somewhere north of 2,000 net pharmacy locations in

Drug prices just did something they have not done since 1963. They fell. The steepest annual drop in over sixty years, down 3.1%, with prices falling in five of the last six months. The last time medication got this much cheaper, gas was about thirty cents a gallon and nobody had told you about cholesterol yet.

The insurance companies and their PBMs sat down and decided which biosimilars they would cover. And guess which ones they picked. They picked their own white-label products. Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and OptumRx excluded nearly all the non-house-brand biosimilars from their 2025 formularies.

The PBM lobby made an online "IQ quiz" to teach the public how helpful pharmacy benefit managers really are. So I took it. I failed. Proudly.

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