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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
John Hanna

States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

Drug Prices States - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

As consumers worry about medication costs, states are trying to lower drug prices by reining in big companies that oversee prescription coverage for health insurers.

Some of those companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, also own pharmacies, and one of them, CVS, has spent millions of dollars fighting the regulations.

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