“It is now overwhelmingly apparent that PBMs are operating the biggest shell game in modern history, and we are all paying for it.” – Antonio Ciaccia, 3Axis Advisors
Meet PUTT
We’re your independent community pharmacies, fighting for our patients’ right to affordable & accessible medication.
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Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) is a non-profit advocacy organization founded by independent pharmacists and pharmacy owners devoted to exposing the truth about the anti-competitive tactics of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs – aka pharmacy benefit companies or PBCs ). Known to most Americans as their “prescription drug benefit plan” provider, PBMs are in reality a $300 billion industry – giant corporate middlemen driving up the cost of medications with huge mark ups and commissions on every prescription covered under their “benefits plan.”
Working with local and national traditional and digital media that includes The New York Times, USA Today, CBS News, Bloomberg, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Business Insider, PUTT seeks to educate patients, lawmakers, health plan sponsors and the public about the deeply negative effects of the PBM industry on U.S. healthcare and the escalating price of prescription medications.
PUTT serves as an industry watchdog, collecting evidence of PBM fraudulent practices and abuse and using this information to educate and inform consumers, taxpayers, employers and health plan sponsors of the truth about the unregulated, unmonitored PBM industry. Through PUTT’s efforts, PBMs have begun to experience greater public awareness and scrutiny of their actions and come under fire for questionable practices including the use of gag clauses at the pharmacy counter, gross over-billing of health plans (called “spread pricing”), forcing patients to use PBM-owned pharmacies instead of allowing patients to choose their own pharmacies and interjecting unnecessary bureaucratic practices such as prior authorizations between patients and their doctors in the matter of prescription refills.
PUTT members and friends are pharmacists, doctors, patients, consumers, lawmakers, taxpayers and community members. If you’ve got a story to tell about how PBMs have hurt your pharmacy, your patients, your family or your community, use the links below to let us know!
https://www.truthrx.org/advocacy
