Elizabeth Warren
20:11 - 20:43
"Express Scripts both decides the reimbursement rates for its competitors and it provides its own pharmacy benefit services. All of it gets billed to TRICARE."
“Express Scripts both decides the reimbursement rates for its competitors and it provides its own pharmacy benefit services. All of it gets billed to TRICARE.”
- Speaker
- Elizabeth Warren
- Timestamp
- 20:11 – 20:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 15, 2026
From the transcript
They process pharmacy claims and they run a mail order program through Express Scripts subsidiaries, their own subsidiaries, called Express Scripts Pharmacy. And Accredo Specialty Pharmacy. Here's the kicker. Express Scripts both decides the reimbursement rates for its competitors and it provides its own pharmacy benefit services. All of it gets billed to TRICARE.
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