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Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Market Power and Lack of Transparency, Steve Pociask

The Economic Costs of Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Review of the Literature, Wayne Winegarden

PBM DIR Fees Costing Medicare and Beneficiaries: Investigative White Paper on Background, Cost Impact, and Legal Issues, Frier Levitt, LLC 

Increasing Competition and Choice:  An Evaluation of Proposed Medicare Regulation and Their Impact on Pharmaceutical Access and Care, David Balto and James Kovaks

The Need for Transparency in Health Care: Clearing the Fog to Make the Market Work, David Balto

Squeezing the Middleman: Ending Underhanded Dealing in the Pharmacy Benefit Management Industry through Regulation, Mark Meador

Leveling the Playing Field in the Pharmacy Benefit Management Industry, Allison Dabbs Garrett and Robert Garis

The Cost of PBM "Self-Dealing" Under a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, James Langenfeld and Robert Maness

Competitive Concerns and Price Transparency in the PBM Market, David Balto

Report urging more oversight of PBMs, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services