Express Scripts, CVS Formulary Updates: Who's In, Who's Out?

Express Scripts and CVS/Caremark, two US pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that have been increasingly vocal about high drug prices, have revised their formularies for 2016 and cut dozens of brand-name therapies from the lists of pharmaceutical products that they will cover on behalf of their health plan clients.

Express Scripts and CVS/Caremark, two US pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that have been increasingly vocal about high drug prices, have revised their formularies for 2016 and cut dozens of brand-name therapies from the lists of pharmaceutical products that they will cover on behalf of their health plan clients.

Express Scripts and CVS, with input from independent scientific advisors, seem to think that some pharma companies did a better job than others of proving value and offering acceptable prices...

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