Month: September 2025
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMS): Policy Landscape and Potential Reforms | September 2025
To download the print-friendly version, click here. Table of Contents Background Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have grown and developed alongside the pharmaceutical manufacturing and health insurance industries, with the earliest versions of PBMs being founded by local groups of pharmacists. In 1958, Canada saw the creation of a prescription prepayment…
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Uninsured Adults by County | 2025 Update
To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To view previous publications, click here. This fact sheet provides the number and percentage of adults, ages 18-64, without health insurance at the county level in Mississippi. The most recent data for 2023 is compared to data for the year 2020. Under…
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Health Care Cost Transparency
Helping Mississippians Navigate Treatment and Medical Debt To download the print-friendly version, click here. This paper examines the significant problem of medical debt in Mississippi and its impact on both individual residents and the state’s economic well-being. The purpose of this research is to identify the main causes of medical…