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Health plans playing tough with drug firms
In dealing with health plans, drug companies are facing a new imperative: bargain or be banned.
Determined to slow the rapid rise in drug prices, more health plans are refusing to cover certain drugs unless companies charge less for them. The strategy appears to be getting pharmaceutical-makers to compete on price.
Some big-selling products have suffered precipitous declines in market share because Express Scripts, the biggest pharmacy benefits manager, recently stopped paying for them for many patients.
Many other countries control drug prices in some manner, so drug companies have become dependent on increasing prices in the United States to grow.
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Today’s ship arrivals and departures:
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