Cost-Containment

Spending on drugs will increase only about 4.6 percent this year, compared to a 4.8 percent increase in overall health costs.

CMS projects that health care's share of the national GDP will stand at 19.4 percent by 2027, and will total nearly $6 trillion.

The Kentucky report is the latest to examine a controversial practice known as spread pricing, in which PBMs pay drugstores one price for a treatment while charging another to clients.

In addition, the venture will be looking at how to make primary care access easier and "maintenance drugs" cheaper.

Rather than manufacture its own drugs, Civica Rx will act as a go-between for hospitals and drugmakers to pool demand and increase supply.

Check out the top 5 strategies successful companies are using to control health care spending while still providing effective coverage.