Express Scripts Settles

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 05/28/2008 - 14:28

Another day, another settlement (of charges that a big health care organization deceived patients and physicians)...

Here is the story summarized in the Wall Street Journal:

Pharmacy-benefits manager Express Scripts Inc . agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle allegations that it asked doctors to switch drugs primarily so it could get bigger rebates from pharmaceutical companies .

The move all but closes the books on a four-year investigation of practices at pharmacy-benefit managers, or...


 

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