About Us
Fight4Rx ® is a national coalition of patients, caregivers, and pharmacists concerned with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) increasing patients’ out of pocket costs and decreasing local access to medication. PBMs manage their own profits by determining pharmacy networks, covered medications or formularies, and patient co-pays.
In fact, PBMs are just a bunch of greedy, corporate middlemen with a simple, big-business model. They profit off of patients needing pharmacy products or services. While PBMs claim to be interested in controlling healthcare costs, their real interest is in corporate profits for Wall Street.
For example, CVS owns the largest PBM, Caremark, and has subsequently purchased health insurer Aetna. Other large PBMs are joined with other large health insurers (Cigna owns Express Scripts and United Healthcare owns OptumRx). Each company also owns their own mail order pharmacy and often forces you, the patient, to get your prescriptions through the PBM-owned mail order pharmacy rather than at a local pharmacy, depriving you of critical opportunities for face-to-face counseling with your local pharmacist.
Fight4Rx is a platform for you, and other like-minded patients and community pharmacy stakeholders, to fight back against PBM abuses and to share your own experiences of how PBMs have impeded your access to medicine and have forced you to pay more.
Fight4Rx is a grassroots project of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).
In fact, PBMs are just a bunch of greedy, corporate middlemen with a simple, big-business model. They profit off of patients needing pharmacy products or services. While PBMs claim to be interested in controlling healthcare costs, their real interest is in corporate profits for Wall Street.
For example, CVS owns the largest PBM, Caremark, and has subsequently purchased health insurer Aetna. Other large PBMs are joined with other large health insurers (Cigna owns Express Scripts and United Healthcare owns OptumRx). Each company also owns their own mail order pharmacy and often forces you, the patient, to get your prescriptions through the PBM-owned mail order pharmacy rather than at a local pharmacy, depriving you of critical opportunities for face-to-face counseling with your local pharmacist.
Fight4Rx is a platform for you, and other like-minded patients and community pharmacy stakeholders, to fight back against PBM abuses and to share your own experiences of how PBMs have impeded your access to medicine and have forced you to pay more.
Fight4Rx is a grassroots project of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).