“Patients who choose a market basket of brand-name drugs instead of clinically equivalent generic alternatives are being charged a higher premium for this decision than ever before. That larger-than-necessary cost is being shared across the member and the plan sponsor. Both can realize savings when members choose lower-cost therapeutically equivalent generic drugs.”
— Sharon Frazee, Ph.D., VP for research and new solutions at Express Scripts, told AIS’s Drug Benefit News.
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