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Wall Street Journal: Mark Cuban-Owned Company Launches Pharmacy-Benefit Manager

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company PBC and the Purchaser Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition of nearly 40 large public and private employers, said they are each starting new pharmacy-benefit management companies. The aim of the new pharmacy-benefit managers, their executives said, was to be more transparent about drug costs and share with their clients more of any negotiated savings.

“Pharmacy costs for both public and private purchasers have been the leading cost driver…and the traditional PBMs were simply unresponsive to their concerns,” said Elizabeth Mitchell, chief executive of PBGH.

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