Pharmacy costs continue to soar for CalPERS, state´s public employee health system
(World News USA)

By Pauline Bartolone, California Healthline Spending on prescription drugs by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) continues to climb, putting pressure on administrators to deploy more cost-cutting measures at the nation’s largest public pension system. The agency’s health benefits committee will discuss the challenge of rising drug costs at its regular meeting on Tuesday, and it will convene a special panel in January to discuss ways to address the problem. CalPERS, which manages health...