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CVS (CVS) says Walmart (WMT) pharmacies are leaving the drugstore networks offered by its pharmacy benefit management unit in a dispute over pricing, The Wall Street Journal writes. The clash will affect people whose employers have drug benefits administered by CVS, as well as Medicaid enrollees with CVS drug coverage. If the split is completed, their plans would not pay for prescriptions filled at Walmart, which is one of the largest retail pharmacy players in the U.S., offering pharmacies in nearly all of its approximately 4,600 stores.

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