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Eryxis
11-11-2011, 10:30 PM
Medco Health Solutions, among the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers, is one of the companies issuing instructions, seeking to have pharmacists keep filling prescriptions with the more expensive Lipitor for six months.

Pfizer has agreed to large discounts for benefit managers that block the use of generic versions of Lipitor, according to a letter from Catalyst Rx, a benefit manager for 18 million people in the United States. The letters have not previously been made public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/health/plan-would-delay-sales-of-generic-for-lipitor.html?_r=2