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LOUIS, Feb. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Express Scripts’ (NASDAQ: ESRX) efforts to put medicine within reach for payers and patients effectively held the 2016 growth rate in prescription drug spending to just 3.8 percent – a 27 percent decrease from 2015 – according to the 21st edition of its annual …
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Catamaran Report Finds Drug Inflation and Increased Specialty Utilization Drives Increase in Drug Trend
Increased specialty utilization and drug inflation were the driving factors for overall drug trend more than doubling in 2014, according to a new report. Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Catamaran Corp. today released its annual Informed Trends report for 2014. Overall commercial drug trend was 5.7 percent in 2014, more than …