Ben Franklin on a bill, peering out through a lot of pills Credit: Cagkan Sayin/Adobe Stock

The New York Times has heightened already intense policymaker scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers by putting a long, critical article about their work on the front page of the issue that ran Friday.

Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson wrote a PBM article with the kicker "The Middlemen" and the headline "The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs."

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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