Antonio Ciaccia

Trump says drug prices are going down. New data shows he’s right and wrong. — 46brooklyn Research As a non-profit, we at 46brooklyn have made it our goal to provide insights into U.S. drug pricing data available in the public domain based upon the figures we’ve gathered over the prior month. Amids...

"Drug prices are skyrocketing!" 🚀

"Drug prices are the lowest they've ever been!" 📉

Let's cut through the noise by looking at the actual numbers. Our latest: www.46brooklyn.com/news/trump-s...

Bipartisan bill aims to end health conflicts and bring down costs after years of complaints in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal A bipartisan bill would prohibit health giants from providing services and paying for them. It would be the biggest antitrust law in decades.

You either want to fight high drug prices or you want to inflate them even more.

New legislation from Senator Josh Hawley & @warren.senate.gov aims to get PBMs to pick a side.

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Virginia Focus - Drug Pricing Update Virginia Focus | iHeart The Trump administration has announced many changes to the prices of prescription drugs for Medicaid and Medicare as well as Trump RX, a website for people to get...

Extensive discussion with Virginia Focus on new year drug price changes, rebates, the push for domestic manufacturing, TrumpRx, the Inflation Reduction Act, 340B, PBMs, and the business of pharmacy www.iheart.com/podcast/1248...

FTC settles lawsuit with Express Scripts over charges it manipulated insulin prices, impeded access The FTC settled a lawsuit against Express Scripts over allegations that the company artificially inflated the price of insulin and impeded access to treatment.

The FTC has a proposed settlement agreement with Express Scripts over allegations of artificially inflating insulin prices.

Will this be the start of a new era, or will we continue to see old money harvested in new ways?

This Year Drugmakers Cut Prices for Several Widely Used Drugs Pharmaceutical companies raised prices for most medicines. Federal government policy changes then drove the reductions.

Good coverage from @loftus.bsky.social on the latest moves on brand drug list prices and how those hikes and cuts could impact patients and broader prescription drug spending

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Brand drug list prices are on the move this month.

Here’s good recent coverage of some of the latest spikes and cuts from @usatoday.com:

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Trump struck deals with 16 drug companies. But they're still raising prices this year All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their prices for 2026.

More NPR coverage of 2026 brand drug list price changes from @sydneylupkin.bsky.social:

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Exclusive: Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from Trump Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration p...

New year, new drug prices 💊

Get a sneak peak at some of the early 2026 drugmaker list price hikes – and cuts – in an era of arguably unprecedented drug channel change.

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Prescription benefits clarity is about more than transparency Getting a list of what the drugs cost is just the start.

“Transparency can end up meaning a presentation of numbers and terms that looks detailed but still doesn't reveal what's really driving employer costs, creating an appearance of openness that protects the status quo instead of enabling real accountability.”

www.benefitspro.com/2025/12/23/p...

America’s Seniors Are Overmedicated One in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time, an analysis of Medicare data found.

A often-overlooked fallout of our fragmented drug distribution system: patients with too many medicines, too many prescribers, too many pharmacies, and not enough quarterbacking of the entirety of the patient’s treatment journey.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Eli Lilly switches from Big 3 PBM to alternative transparent rival The drugmaker has about 23,000 employees who will be covered by Rightway.

The market won't change until employers start changing.

And slowly but surely, employers are starting to change.

www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

Wyden, Crapo Introduce Bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Wyden, Crapo Introduce Bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation

Now that Congress is back to some degree of normal business, drug pricing reforms are back in the hopper with @mikecrapo.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov’s long-anticipated PBM reform policy package now hitting Senate desks www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

November 26 Antonio Ciaccia Rising prescription drug prices

“That sounds criminal.”

Great chatting by with Paul Miller at WPHM about bloated prescription drug prices and how our reliance on conflicted intermediaries to control them can often make affordability issues even worse www.wphm.net/episode/nove...

Pharmacy chain closes, worsening deserts in SE Ohio, West Virginia • Ohio Capital Journal Blaming giant drug middlemen, Fruth Pharmacy is closing its stores in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia after 73 years in business.

In just a few months' time, Rite Aid and Fruth Pharmacies have been wiped off the map @martyschladen.bsky.social ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/26/p...

Fruth to sell its pharmacies to Walgreens by the end of the year A pharmacy chain that has served the region for decades has announced it is selling its practices.Fruth Pharmacy announced this week that it will sell its pharm

The waves of community pharmacy closures keep coming; this time it’s my good friends over at Fruth Pharmacy.

More neighborhoods of need in Ohio and West Virginia turning into pharmacy deserts.

Another reminder that you get what you pay for. wchstv.com/news/local/f...

This drug pricing distortion was supposed to go extinct. It’s never been more alive. — 46brooklyn Research This summer, we launched a new research work that examined the costs yielded by a reborn and evolved species of the prescription drug supply chain: drug companies who are also part of larger vertica...

I will give you an 80% discount off the price of your cup of coffee.

Sounds great, right?

Let's sign a contract where all your coffee purchases go through me, and I will honor that 80% discount every time.

BTW, I also set the price of that coffee.

Cigna Unit Sells Generic Drugs at Higher Prices, Report Says A little-known Cigna Group subsidiary that sells generic drugs charges prices that skew higher than many competing suppliers, according to a new analysis that raises questions about the company’s role...

PBMs say they want low list prices for drugs.

Their new affiliated private label drug companies now have the power to do it themselves.

Instead, the generic prices are on average 33 times higher than the lowest in the market.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mark Cuban is trying to shake up biosimilar pricing with a version of J&J's best-selling Stelara drug In its bid to shake up drug pricing, the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company has reached a deal to sell a biosimilar version of Stelara, a widely prescribed treatment.

Everyone says they want low drug prices until actual low drug prices show up.

(except patients)

@costplusdrugs.com @mcuban.bsky.social @alexosh.bsky.social @drugchannels.bsky.social @pharmalot.bsky.social www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones, study shows The findings are similar to an analysis STAT conducted, and raise questions about why UnitedHealth pays its doctors more.

You don’t say?

After bailing on Ohio and Michigan, Rite Aid closes completely  • Ohio Capital Journal A wave of pharmacy closures in Ohio and elsewhere appears to be deepening. Once the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, Rite Aid announced on its website that all of its stores are now ...

From Big 3 to just zero: Rite Aid is officially reduced to ashes as pharmacy market attrition rolls on @martyschladen.bsky.social ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/13/a...

Where Policy Meets the Pharmacy Counter Where Policy Meets the Pharmacy Counter Featuring Congressman Jake Auchincloss Episode Summary In this episode of RealPharma , hosts Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt sit down…

“Soaking high drug prices as a mechanism to lower premiums is neither a wise nor a sustainable practice.”

Acknowledge @repauchincloss.bsky.social 🎙️

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What's behind Amazon’s in-person pharmacy play Amazon to install prescription medication dispensing machines at One Medical clinics, starting in Los Angeles this December, marking its first in-person pharmacy presence.

When Amazon makes moves in pharmacy – no matter how seemingly small – you should always be thinking about the long game @nyeungs.bsky.social

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Exclusive | Trump Excludes Generics From Big Pharma Tariff Plan The administration has been weighing duties for months on a range of products and ingredients in a national-security tariff investigation.

Good news for fans of generic drug affordability 👇

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Congress must address the health care cost crisis now Our health care system has a pressing need for greater competition and transparency.

“American businesses should not be left to subsidize the lack of transparency, accountability and fair competition in the health care industry.”

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Are generic drug prices going up or down? Depends on which benchmark you ask — 46brooklyn Research For the first time: Year-over-year generic drug price inflation For those unfamiliar, our team at 46brooklyn Research have a thing for tracking prescription drug prices. Not just the prices of d...

The price is the price.

Unless it’s the other price.

Generic drug prices are going up and down – depending on your perspective.

www.46brooklyn.com/research/are...

Will the White House drug-pricing deal lower costs for Americans? Experts are skeptical Will the White House drug-pricing deal lower costs for Americans? Experts are skeptical.

“The immediate stock reaction across the group affirms our view this is more optics than bite.”

Good rundown on yesterday’s Trump/Pfizer rendezvous from @elaineywchen.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/w...

If you are someone who wants more drug manufacturing in the U.S., this may please you.

If you are someone who wants lower brand drug prices in the U.S., this may tariffy you.

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Sanofi set to offer insulin products at $35 per month for all US patients French drugmaker Sanofi said on Friday it would offer a month's supply of any of its insulin products for $35 to all patients in the U.S. with a valid prescription, regardless of insurance status.

Look out below!

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Yeah, that’ll fix it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A quarterly-ish review of U.S. drug price changes — 46brooklyn Research As a non-profit, we at 46brooklyn have made it our goal to provide insights into U.S. drug pricing data available in the public domain based upon the figures we are able to get our nerdy hands on. Whi...

There are 281 brand-name drugs with new list prices.

Here are the details.