Companies are united in a view that there's significant waste in the system, yet a minority are taking steps like collecting and analyzing telltale data.
It may take awhile, but the recent mergers of health insurers and pharmacy benefits managers could meaningfully mitigate the costs of care.
A 9.5% surge in same-store prescription volume in Q2 helped offset a 1% decline in front-end same-store sales.
The pharmacy chain blinks first in the parties' epic pricing struggle — perhaps setting the stage for corporate cost savings on drug benefits.
