Mehta Analysis: Welcome To The PBM Realm, Derica Rice and Andrew Witty
As two high-profile pharma veterans make their move into pharmacy benefit management leadership, Viren Mehta, founding partner of Mehta Partners LLC, ponders the challenges they face and the impact their actions will have on the pharma industry. Yet another exposé about the drug cost conundrum that the pricing strategies of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) pose for the industry was detailed mid-March in the Financial Times. This report, down to the penny, showed how many of the widely used drugs incur…