Drug Channels News Roundup, April 2018: Copay Accumulators, Express Scripts, Pharmacy Pricing, Amazon, and Almost-Pharmacist Jack Nicklaus

Baseball season is finally here! Oil up your glove, lace up your cleats, and let's run the bases around this month's news stories. Remember: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains.

In this issue:

  • Green Monster: The drug manufacturers that are most vulnerable to copay accumulators
  • Pop Fly: Express Scripts wants to pop the gross-to-net bubble?
  • Foul! Fresh evidence that uninsured consumers pay rip-off cash prices at retail pharmacies
  • Strikeout: My $0.02 on Amazon’s decision not to sell drugs to hospitals

Plus, from the diamond to the green: the secret pharmacy history of golf legend Jack Nicklaus.

P.S. For my daily pitches on the industry’s hits and misses, follow @DrugChannels on Twitter. My recent tweets have covered copay accumulators, the oncology market, drug costs, biosimilars, PBMs, and more.

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