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When it comes to shopping, most consumers will want to know the price of a product and will often look for the best deal before making a purchase. That’s not always the case when buying prescription drugs, which means many people are paying more than they should for their medications. One sure way to save …
As a member of the Fraud, Waste & Abuse Services team at Express Scripts, I am on the front lines of fighting prescription-drug fraud and abuse. After years of working on cases, sometimes they meld together. But then there are the ones that stand out. For me, those are the cases that involve the most …
GigaOM, a leading technology blog, published an article yesterday afternoon highlighting Express Scripts’ fight against two of healthcare’s most expensive challenges: medication nonadherence and prescription drug fraud and abuse. The writer Derrick Harris summarizes our strategy as being “all about data.” He goes on to describe several examples of abuse and misuse identified and investigated …
The U.S. wasted $418 billion in 2012 based on bad medication-related decisions, and the impact was most deeply felt in those states that could least afford it, according to new research Express Scripts released this morning. While these costly decisions impact the entire nation, our analysis shows that they have a disproportionate effect on the …
A few days ago, I came across an article about yet another healthcare scam — this one related to the Affordable Care Act. Con artists posing as federal employees are calling consumers who have supposedly been selected to receive health insurance cards and asking for personal information — such as name, address and bank account number …
