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SAN FRANCISCO — The big truck driving around downtown here last week was plastered with a photo of a pile of hundred dollar bills and an eye-catching declaration: “Pharma has a $637 billion annual revenue problem.”

The advertisement, from HealthPrize Technologies, spotlighted the firm’s new estimate of how much the industry loses when patients don’t fill, or don’t refill, their prescriptions.

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