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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - prescription drugs Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Nine Leading Trends in Rx Plan Management: Findings from a National Peer Study, 2012 Edition (PDF) Arizona Now Allowing Some Religious Employers' Health Plans to Opt Out of Contraceptive Drug Coverage Mandate Some States Mandating Better Coverage of Oral Medications Used for Cancer Treatment Why Your Drug Co-Pay Could Change Co-Pays Rising for Expensive Specialty Drugs House Ways and Means Panel Mulls FSA Coverage for OTC Medicines Specialty Drug Spending Accounted for 20% of Total U.S. Drug Expenditures in 2009 [Guidance Overview] CMS Issues Medicare Part D Benefit Parameters for 2013 [Opinion] Text of Consumer-Directed Health Coalition's Letter Urging Repeal of Prescription Requirement for HSA-Eligible OTC Drugs (PDF) Present Law and Background Relating to Tax Treatment of Cost of Over-the-Counter Medicine as Medical Care Expense [Guidance Overview] Health Plan Sponsors Assessing Effect of 2013 Medicare Part D Indexed Amounts [Guidance Overview] Final Medicare Part D Regulations Include Coverage Gap Discount Program States Seek To Limit Co-Pays for Costly Drugs And Then There Were Two: Express Scripts Completes Medco Acquisition [Opinion] American Benefits Council Letter to House Judiciary Subcommittee Opposing H.R. 1946, Preserving Our Hometown Independent Pharmacies Act of 2011 (PDF) Lower Copays Help Ensure Medication Adherence Impact of an Online Prescription Management Account on Medication Adherence First Annual Specialty Drug Benefit Report Generic Medication Program Targets Pharmacy Benefits Costs How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans in a Rapidly Changing Pharmaceutical Landscape (PDF) Health Insurance Plans Sue Drug Companies over Coupons Trends in Retail Prices of Prescription Drugs Widely Used by Medicare Beneficiaries, 2005 to 2009 (PDF) Senate Defeats Amendment to Overturn Prescription Contraceptive Rule Low Premiums, Zero-Dollar Deductibles and Preferred Pharmacy Networks Winning Strategies for Medicare Part D Sponsors Last Open-Enrollment Period GAO Report on Drug Pricing: Research on Savings from Generic Drug Use [Guidance Overview] Creditable Drug Coverage Disclosure Due to CMS, but Website Problems May Hamper Filing How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans Part 5, Conclusion: Opportunity in the Marketplace How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans Part 4: Specialty Drugs, the New Major Cost Driver An Evaluation of the Impact of Patient Cost Sharing for Antihypertensive Medications on Adherence, Medication and Health Care Utilization, and Expenditures How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans Part 3: As Pharma Consolidates, Even Smaller Employers Can Negotiate How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans Part 2: Poor Drug Adherence Can Play Havoc with Pharmacy Benefit Plans Americans Weigh in on Contraception Rule Bishops Reject White House's New Plan on Contraception Coverage White House Compromise Still Guarantees Contraceptive Coverage for Women Obama Compromises Amid Catholic Contraception Coverage Anger Bishops Stand Strong Against Birth Control Coverage Mandate Financial Burden from Prescription Drugs Has Declined Recently for the Nonelderly How to Manage Pharmacy Benefits Plans: Part 1: Getting the Plan Design Right Effects of Pharmacy Benefit Carve-in on Utilization and Medical Costs (PDF) [Opinion] Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicine Saves Healthcare System Billions [Opinion] PBM Merger Would Mean More Bad News for Consumers [Guidance Overview] Deadline for Calendar Year Health Plans to Submit Creditable Coverage Disclosures to CMS is February 29 (PDF) [Opinion] Pharmacy Benefit Managers Have Emerged as Vocal Critics of Drug Industry's Reliance on Copay Cards, Coupons, and Other Tools A Four-Part Prescription for Managing the Cost of Pharmacy Benefits Health Plans Seeking the Cost Savings of Generic Drugs Must Still Remain Vigilant for Overcharges Psychiatric Group Pushes to Redefine Mental Illness Sparks Revolt U.S. Consumers Tell Insurers to Cover Experimental Drugs New Cancer Drugs Affordable By The 1 Percent? What to Make of The 'That's What PBMs Do' PR Campaign Walgreen-Express Scripts Pricing War Could Cut Drug Costs [Official Guidance] HHS Final Rule: Payments to Sponsors of Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (PDF) [Opinion] AARP Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Competition in Prescription Drug Market No Co-Pay Pays Off for Pharmaceutical Firms Americans' Access to Prescription Drugs Stabilizes, 2007-2010 New Law Bans Mail-Order Drug Mandates in New York Obese People Use More Medications, According to Study Catholic Groups Fight Contraceptive Mandate, but Many Already Offer Coverage Chronic Disease May Increase Out-of-Pocket Costs for Insured Managing Pharmacy Benefits Cost-Effectiveness of Potential FEHBP Reforms Questioned Probe Continues Into Reform Law Dealings Between White House and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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