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Anthem sues Express Scripts over drug prices

Anthem's public spat with Express Scripts has escalated into a lawsuit against the pharmacy benefits management company charging it with failing to pass on prescription drug savings.  

Letting Medicare negotiate drug prices may produce limited savings

Presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle, including both winners of last night's New Hampshire primary, have supported allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. But a brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation says the financial windfall may be limited.  

The unintended consequences of health insurers' fight to lower drug prices

Insurance companies that use prescription benefit management companies are increasingly cutting coverage of high-ticket brand-name drugs. It's not just adding to the raging drug price wars, but can also alienate members.

How insurers, policymakers could drive value-based drug pricing

In healthcare, prescription drugs are the only major product for which the producer is able to exercise relatively unrestrained pricing power, and the result is that drug prices in the U.S. are usually two to six times higher than prices for the same drugs in other major industrialized nations, according to a perspective piece published in the  Journal of American Medical Association.