{"id":50120,"date":"2025-09-29T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50120\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:32:16","slug":"pharma-middlemen-seek-to-head-off-new-rules-with-voluntary-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50120\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharma Middlemen Seek to Head Off New Rules With Voluntary Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pharmacy middlemen are working on a proposal to voluntarily change some of their business practices in an effort to avoid new regulation from the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The main lobbying group that represents so-called pharmacy benefit managers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0119127D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Pharmaceutical Care Management Association<\/a>, has drafted proposals to bring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/9877893Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services<\/a>, according to a document viewed by Bloomberg News. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmacy middlemen are working on a proposal to voluntarily change some of their business practices in an effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7229,8310,43511,1757,134,527,648,111,139,69,582,135,640,43512,15581,15115,2988],"class_list":["post-50120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-aim","tag-congress","tag-cvs-health-corp","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-industries","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-the-cigna-group","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-unitedhealth-group-inc","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}