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Express Scripts allegedly inflated drug costs for payers and patients through the pharmacy benefit manager's auto-refill dispensing scheme.

Express Scripts Inc. beat a claim for $14.8 billion in damages in a breach of contract lawsuit filed by Anthem Inc., after a federal judge in New York ruled that the insurer was seeking compensation outside the terms of the five-year contract at issue. 

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has launched an investigation into an obscure drug-pricing maneuver that could be both illegal and costing taxpayers millions of dollars. The inability of the state to track millions of dollars of prescription payments for Ohio's disabled and poorest residents represents much more than a paperwork error.

Pharmacy benefit managers, who have come to dominate the prescription drug world in the US, use a range of 'abusive' tactics to dictate how expensive oncology drugs are covered and paid for.

/PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) today announced that commercial members can now visit a preferred pharmacy or use mail...