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Articles in April, 2003 issue of Drug Cost Management Report

• Prime Therapeutics designs consumer-directed Rx carve-out
• New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is charging three pharmaceutical manufacturers with "conducting elaborate illegal schemes" - Legal News in Brief - Brief Article
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is taking to the road with its generic consumer education campaign - Drug Cost Strategies in Brief - Brief Article
• Medicare+Choice: diminished Rx benefits, dwindling membership - Brief Article
• The Pennsylvania Medicaid Fraud Control Section has reached a $49 million multi-state settlement with Pfizer Inc - Legal News in Brief - Brief Article
• Michigan and Vermont have launched the nation's first multistate arrangement to purchase drugs for their respective Medicaid programs - Drug Cost Strategies in Brief - Brief Article
• Union lawsuit heralds changes to PBM industry, but not all employers complaining
• Care Network, Inc. has selected NMHCRx to provide PBM services to injured workers in Nevada - CNI - Contracts and Alliances in Brief
• Anthem Rx thinks generics - new Think Generics? program - Brief Article
• Coming in May
• The California Department of Managed Health Care has directed California HMOs not to exclude coverage for an entire class of prescription medications when one drug in that class gains over-the counter status - DMHC - OTC - Drug Cost Strategies in Brief
• PharmaCare Management Services, Inc., is the new PBM for Fallon Community Health Plan - FCHP - Contracts and Alliances in Brief - Brief Article
• Mississippi will begin a prescription mail-order program next month for about 30,000 Medicaid recipients - Drug Cost Strategies in Brief - Brief Article
• Unnecessary use of antibiotics declined from 61% in 1998 to 56% in 2001 - Drug Cost Studies in Brief - Brief Article