Express Scripts Appealing to Conscience to Lower Drug Costs

Express Scripts is appealing to injured workers' sense of social responsibility to help insurers and employers save on workers' compensation drug costs, the company said in a press release Thursday.The St. Louis-based pharmacy benefit manager said it has started writing letters to inform injured workers about higher costs with physician-dispensed medications and explaining how brand-name prescription drugs lead to rising health care costs.Express Scripts said it launched the program after a pilot study showed that claimants were 60% more likely to choose a generic equivalent after rece...