title: WellPoint taking new approach to controlling 'vampire drugs'.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D019468:Disease Management; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000592:standards*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States