A 2018 study by the University of Southern California found that customers overpaid for prescription drugs at the pharmacy 23 percent of the time.
An eight-month investigation by the Columbus Dispatch earlier this year found that pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen in the Medicaid supply chain between drug manufacturers and customers — are charging Ohioans three to six times the normal rate for drugs, costing taxpayers between $150 million and $186 million more than they need to spend on drugs.
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