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Ground broken on Md.’s first stand-alone in-patient drug detox center

By Capital News Service

By Laura Perrot, correspondent

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md. — Ground was ceremonially broken Tuesday in Linthicum Heights in Anne Arundel County for the Maryland House Detox, which will become the state’s first stand alone in-patient detox center when it opens this coming spring.

States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

By The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As consumers worry about medication costs, states are trying to lower drug prices by reining in big companies that oversee prescription coverage for health insurers. Some of those companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, also own pharmacies, and one of them, CVS, has spent millions of dollars fighting the regulations. Affordability is a key issue ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Legislators in at least a dozen states passed laws this year to limit compensation to the companies, set minimum payments from the companies to pharmacists and require the companies to disclose more information to their clients, states and the public. A Tennessee law will bar pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail pharmacies as of July 1, 2028, though CVS Health Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit to avoid having to close its 136 pharmacies there.
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