PCMA: Mail-Service Pharmacies Save More than Retail Drugstores

U.S. Newswire, June, 2006

WASHINGTON, June 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) released the following statement. PCMA is the national association representing America's pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which drive down the cost of prescription drugs for 200 million Americans with drug coverage provided through Fortune 500 employers, health insurers, labor unions, and Medicare:

"Since 2003, four separate, independent studies conducted by federal government agencies - the Federal Trade Commission, the Government Accountability Office, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Congressional Budget Office - have concluded that PBM mail-service pharmacies provide deeper savings than retail pharmacies; broad access to generic drugs; and are helping to...

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