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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Express Scripts Gets $2.4 Billion Contract For Employees’ Prescriptions

A complex and contentious $2.4 billion contract for state employees’ prescription drugs was awarded to St. Louis-based Express Scripts on Wednesday, over the protests of Comptroller Peter Franchot and the Maryland company holding the old contract.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like our Governor O'Malley is killing Maryland jobs just like Obama has killed million of American jobs. Seems to me the Maryland company should get the contract not some other state. After all it is for Maryland State employees.

Anonymous said...

I used to be with express scripts, what a scam. I called around to different pharmacies to get the best price, some were cheaper than the express scripts my insurance company forced me to use or they wouldn't cover it.

Now that I no longer have insurance I went price comparing, Giant wanted $75, Medicine shoppe wanted $35 and Riverside was $19.94 for the exact same generic as the other places.

It does pay to compare. Ought to be against the law to gouge people, some older folks would probably just pay the price because they don't know there is a big difference.