WellPoint taking new approach to controlling 'vampire drugs'.
Are pharmaceutical costs sucking too much money out of the system? A California health plan is getting ready to introduce the newest thing in drug cost controls--reference pricing. They'll tell what they'll pay for, and stop talking about what they won't pay for.
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