Express Scripts, CVS Formulary Updates: Who's In, Who's Out?
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
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.
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