STAT+: A ‘veritable playground’: CVS whistleblower details how patients were charged higher drug prices
The conversation reflected frustration and disbelief.
A woman had called SilverScript, which runs one of the largest Medicare prescription drug plans, to complain that she was unable to get a generic version of a brand-name asthma medication known as Advair. She couldn’t understand why a less-expensive generic was not on the list of covered medicines, because paying for it anyway would cost her about $100 more.
