WOONSOCKET, R.I., Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ –CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today announced that prescription drug trend, a measure of growth in prescription spending, for CVS Health pharmacy benefit management (PBM) clients dropped dramatically to 5 percent in 2015 from a high of 11.8 percent in 2014. While the trend drivers …
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Specialty Therapies Drive Significant Increase in US Drug Spending in 2014
Spending on specialty drugs took a record rise in the US in 2014, largely due to new expensive, yet effective, hepatitis C drugs, according to new data released today in the 2014 Express Scripts Drug Trend Report. According to the pharmacy benefit manager’s (PBM) report, new hepatitis C drugs’ high …