By Gina Shaw
Management strategies such as Walgreens-anchored preferred networks, negotiated savings and a new formulary strategy called NetResults helped pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Prime Therapeutics hold down drug spending in the first half of 2017 compared with the first half of 2016.
These results are according to the PBM’s new midyear drug trend reports, released Oct. 12.
Prime, which serves more than 20 million members nationwide, reported that:
- commercial clients experienced only