US drug benefit managers clamp down on speciality pharmacies
Los Angeles
IN recent days, the largest US managers of private prescription drug benefits have cut off at least eight pharmacies that work closely with drugmakers, intensifying scrutiny of a system that helps inflate drug prices, officials at the benefit managers told Reuters.
The terminations come from payers who together manage drug benefits for more than 100 million Americans, and they follow disclosures by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc in late October that one pharmacy accounted for about 7 per cent of its sales. "What we had not been aware of, until really the last year, was th…
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