Tag: Express Scripts
Louisiana files lawsuits alleging CVS deceived customers in text messages
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana filed several lawsuits accusing pharmaceutical giant CVS Health Corp. of abusing customer information and using its dominant market position to...
CVS, Express Scripts sue Arkansas over restriction on pharmacy benefit managers
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – CVS Health Corp. and Express Scripts have asked a federal judge to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from...
Do you support Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s major proposals to...
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on May 28 announced a package of legislative proposals and other initiatives to help the state’s ailing primary care...
Are PBMs forcing out small drugstores, inflating medication prices?
Pharmacy benefit managers say they protect against prescription drug prices from rising exorbitantly high, but these companies – such as one operated by CVS...
FTC criticizes ‘enormous power’ of pharmacy benefit managers in scathing report
PROVIDENCE – Drug middlemen are hurting small, independent pharmacies while reaping huge profits by inflating drug prices, according to a Federal Trade Commission staff...
Mass. AG reaches $6.1M settlement with CVS on workers’ compensation drug...
BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said Monday that she's reached a $6.1 million settlement with CVS Health Corp. to resolve allegations the...
Partners turned into prey as insurers, drug plans get squeezed
NEW YORK – Over 20 years, Brian Komoto built a thriving pharmacy in California’s Central Valley. Each day, his nurses would travel the vast...
Amazon isn’t only retail giant trying to remake health care
NEW YORK – Amazon.com Inc. says it wants to remake health care for its workers. But its biggest rival is beating it to the...
Cigna to buy Express Scripts as health shakeout speeds up
NEW YORK – Cigna Corp. agreed to buy Express Scripts Holding Co. in an about $54 billion deal that builds on the rapid transformation...
`Rigged’ system blocks use of lower-cost drugs, FDA chief says
WASHINGTON – A “rigged payment scheme” between drug plans, insurers and pharmaceutical companies has blocked access to less-expensive versions of some of the most costly drugs...



















