Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) claim to save patients money, but state records show a years-long trail of millions spent with no savings produced. The first PDAB was created in 2019 under the guise of lowering health care costs for people in Maryland,...

State-based Prescription Drug Affordability Board’s (PDABs) have an important goal – to cut health care costs by reducing spending on prescription drugs.  However, in an effort to do so, PDAB actions often overlook the complexities of America’s health care system and...

A recent survey of independent pharmacists should serve as a warning about the unintended consequences of upper payment limits. 

Colorado and Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Boards are both in the process of considering how to set upper payment limits.

Two states now seem to be in a race to implement processes for setting upper payment limits.

On Friday, August 9, the Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Board released its draft Upper Payment Limit Action Plan.

Health care payers are intensely focused on the cost of healthcare, particularly pharmaceutical costs.

Some states are trying to lower health care costs by establishing review boards to assess and limit prescription drug spending.