The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.

Lawmakers are working to guarantee the price you pay at the pharmacy doesn’t flatline your wallet, focusing on the high cost of drug prices and PBM reform.

The agreement orders Express Scripts to offer plan members the lowest available cost for medicine like insulin rather than artificially inflated prices.

Patients needing prescription medications are facing sticker shock and some people are paying more than others for the exact same drugs. For some, these drugs can mean the difference between life and death,

The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices.

Over the next year and a half, hospitals’ supply chain teams should expect to see pharmacy price inflation temper while other indirect spending and purchased services jump higher, Vizient wrote in | Hospitals’ supply chain teams should expect to see pharmacy price inflation temper from the third quarter of 2026 to the second quarter of 2027,

The Trump administration says that while it is pushing for lower prices in the U.S. drugmakers will be able to make up the difference by charging higher prices abroad.