Shares of pharmacy-benefit managers fell Friday after the White House released a paper pushing for lower biotech drug prices. Shares of Express Scripts Holding Co. declined 2.8%, CVS Health Corp. shares slipped 1.5%, while shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. , with its OptumRx PBM business, swung from a slight loss to be up 0.5%. On Friday, the White House’s Coucil of Economic Advisers released a white paper entitled “Reforming Biopharmaceutical Pricing at Home and Abroad” which called for reducing prices of biotech drugs while raising incentives for medical innovation to promote competition.
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