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		<title><![CDATA[Express Scripts Fine Settles PBM Mess -- For Now]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Express Scripts Fine Settles PBM Mess -- For NowPBMsPublished on discoverwhatyouthink.blogspot.comThe Amazement and the Price of Innovation:  PBMsRecently, you may have heard or read in mass media sources about the issue of what are known as pharmacy benefit managers that have clients who are prescribed medications created by what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Express Scripts Fine Settles PBM Mess -- For Now]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/100080/express-scripts-fine-settles-pbm-mess-for-now/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Express Scripts, a big "pharmacy benefit management," or PBM, provider, yesterday agreed to pay $9.5 million in order to settle looming state lawsuits centered on allegations that it monkeyed with patient prescriptions in order to reap bigger rebates from drugmakers.    The payment, of course, is a mere...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:08:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The utilization side of the story: utilization management is an increasingly important component of controlling pharmaceutical costs. No wonder workers' compensation PBMs are multiplying like rabbits]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BJK/is_14_18/ai_n27447803]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  Let's say you and your pharmacy benefit manager are sophisticated and vigilant in your efforts to control spending on pharmaceuticals. Despite the wholesale pricing complications, you feel confident that your injured employees are getting what they need to heal the injury and return to work quickly at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employers get creative on Rx costs; Transparency, generic drug efforts help benefit managers take control.(News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200702/ai_n20164937]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ    NEW YORK-Some benefit managers are exploring innovative ways to  manage their pharmacy benefits, demanding enhanced performance from  their pharmacy benefit managers and changing their employees'  approach to managing their ow  Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ    NEW YORK-Some benefit managers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Store-Brand Infant Formula Company PBM Products Files Formal Response to Mead Johnson &amp; Co. Lawsuit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200701/ai_n21886962]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: Joe Shields, Director of Public Relations of PBM Products, LLC, +1-800-959-2066 ext. 131, jshields@pbmproducts.comGORDONSVILLE, Va., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Store-brand infantformula company PBM Products, LLC, has filed a formal response to a lawsuitfiled by Mead Johnson & Co., a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb and maker ofEnfamilR...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retailers offering low-cost generics shake drug market]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2922/is_200612/ai_n17081450]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While health care analysts agree that consumers will benefit from Wal-Mart's recent decision to sell certain generic drugs for $4 a month, there's plenty of debate on the impact cheaper generics will have on competition at the retail and PBM levels and on While health care analysts agree that consumers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drug pricing system nixed by pact; Class settlement may lead to reduced prescription costs.(First DataBank Inc., McKesson Corp.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200610/ai_n20180051]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK    A proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit against the  nation's No. 1 provider of average wholesale prices for  pharmaceuticals likely will result in pharmacy benefit managers  attempting to renegotiate their contracts to   Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cheaper Zocor throws generic market a curveball]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2921/is_200610/ai_n16914636]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent change in policy adopted by large pharmaceutical firm Merck to offer greater discounts for its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor has given employer-clients, pharmacy benefit managers and insurers a tough benefit design decision: Should they stick w A recent change in policy adopted by large pharmaceutical firm Merck to offer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employer savings seen in Wal-Mart drug move; Retail giant slashes prices on hundreds of generics.(News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK    Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s high-profile decision to cut prices on  nearly 300 prescription generic drugs should save money for employers  with prescription drug plans and could stimulate greater use of  generics, which are seen as v  Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cheaper Zocor throws generic market a curveball]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent policy change by Merck to offer greater discounts for its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor has employers, pharmacy benefit managers and insurers faced with making a tough decision: Should they follow what has been general tradition to this point a A recent policy change by Merck to offer greater discounts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drug benefit plans allowing HSA users access to discounts on prescriptions.(health saving accounts)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200608/ai_n20165340]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ    Insurers and prescription benefit managers are developing pharmacy  benefit plans designed to help members of consumer-driven health care  plans better manage their prescription drug costs.    CDHP members are being allowed to  Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ    Insurers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employers pushing their PBMs for revenue info, rebate funds.(pharmacy benefit manager, University of Minnesota )]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200509/ai_n20162625]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: KAREN PALLARITO    When the University of Minnesota began searching for a pharmacy  benefit manager to oversee nearly $35 million in annual prescription  drug spending that it had carved out from its health plan  administrators, the self-insured  Byline: KAREN PALLARITO   ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PCMA Intends to Immediately Appeal U.S. District Court Ruling on Maine PBM Fiduciary-Disclosure Law]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200504/ai_n21851759]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's ruling by the U.S. District Court upholding Maine's PBM fiduciary- disclosure law and in an effort to protect Maine consumers and employers from higher prescription drug costs, the PharmaceutiWASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's ruling by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Web site could offer cost-saving opportunities for employers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2922/is_200503/ai_n13287908]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The close of 2004 saw the introduction of a new tool regarding the pharmaceutical industry: the Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs Web site. Although the site is directed at consumers of prescription medications, it will have a much broader impact, as doctors, pharmacists, PBMs and drug manufacturers will surely feel...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PCMA President Mark Merritt Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee on Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Rules]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200409/ai_n21839637]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Testifying today before the Senate Finance Committee on proposed rules governing the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, PCMA President & CEO Mark Merritt said preserving PBMs' proven cost containment and quWASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Testifying today before the Senate Finance Committee on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Biotech drugs beneficial but confound cost containment.(Benefits Management)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200405/ai_n20156164]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS    Rapid growth in the price and availability of new specialty drug  treatments is posing new challenges for employers' cost management  efforts.    The drugs, which typically are known as biotechnology-or  biotech-drugs, are u  Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS  ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PCMA: Medicare Trustees' Report 'Sobering Reminder' to Policymakers to Embrace Choice, Competition in Medicare]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200403/ai_n21831873]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Numerous independent government data and analyses have documented the value that competing PBMs can bring to the Medicare program.  The Congressional Budget Office CBO has long asserted that PBMs have the potential to save as much as 30 percent in totalNumerous independent government data and analyses have documented the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PCMA: U.S. District Court Blocks Maine Prescription Drug Law from Taking Effect]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200403/ai_n21831052]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Yesterday's decision by the U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to block a new sweeping Maine prescription drug law -- LD 554 -- from taking effect recognizes the central role PBMs play in delivering affordable preWASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Yesterday's decision by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merger to Form Second-Largest Prescription-Benefits Manager.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200402/ai_n22114352]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Yu, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business  News    Feb. 12--Five months after they agreed to merge, AdvancePCS and  Caremark  Rx Inc., two of the nation's largest pharmaceutical  benefit managers, got the  green light from federal regulators Wednesday  to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Timeline of notable developments in employee benefits during 2003.(Spotlight)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200312/ai_n20156624]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[JANUARY    The Labor Department releases regulations that will further ease  compliance with a federal law requiring employers to provide to 401k  and other defined contribution plan participants 30 days' advance  notice of blackout periods-periods du  JANUARY    The Labor Department releases...]]></description>
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