A spat between Walgreens and U.S. Department of Defense’s Tricare pharmacy benefits program could prohibit nearly 6 million enrollees from obtaining medications from the company’s pharmacies next year.

Three men – the alleged ringleader, a doctor and a pharmacist — were indicted today (Feb. 15) for their alleged role in a narcotics ring that defrauded Medicaid and each week distributed black-market prescription pain pills in part of New Jersey.

Companies can save money and increase their employees’ medication adherence by lowering co-payments on prescription drugs and establishing a disease management program, a new report says.

A New Jersey woman was sentenced to three years in prison for selling fertility drugs that were funded by her health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Having touted its early success in implementing some parts of new federal health reform law, officials now say a $250 rebate check to seniors who fall into the Medicare “doughnut hole” will be in the mail in the next two weeks.

Health insurance companies UnitedHealthCare, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Tufts Health Plan have all filed for double-digit rate increases for next year.

A Virginia Beach, Va., cancer doctor was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison for bilking Medicare and TRICARE out of $1.3 million for fraudulent billing of both services.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield was bilked out of more than $16,000 by a Bellmawr, N.J., woman who allegedly called in at least 285 phony prescriptions for herself and her family members while employed at several doctors’ offices.

A Chula Vista, Calif., doctor was one of three people recently arrested in what officials call a “complex, multi-level scheme,” that took more than $200,000 from low-income patients and government agencies.

The owner of a Newark, N.J., pharmacy was sentenced April 6 in connection with an investigation into pharmacy owners and employees fraudulently filling prescriptions.