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Starting in 2015, a whistleblower lawsuit alleges CVS Health coordinated an effort that relied on its SilverScript subsidiary, its Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and its chain of CVS retail pharmacies to prevent consumers from obtaining low-cost generics because the company profited from making only higher-priced brand-name medicines available to its customers, STAT reports. The scheme involved arrangements with drug companies that allegedly sought to block generic competition for more than a dozen widely prescribed, brand-name medicines. Medicare Part D beneficiaries were forced to pay more than they would have otherwise if lower-cost generics were available on a formulary.

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