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HFS promises to do more to address pharmacy access issues
Pfizer And AstraZeneca's Billion Dollar Battle...Boxes containing various pharmaceutical products are seen on display in the pharmacy department of a drugstore in London, U.K., on Friday, May 2, 2014. AstraZeneca Plc rejected Pfizer Inc.'s sweetened takeover proposal, saying the 63.1 billion-pound ($106.5 billion) offer fails to recognize the value of the promising experimental medicines under development by the U.K.'s second-biggest drugmaker. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services will look to do more to address access standards after health and community leaders raised concerns over a recent change to the Medicaid prescription plan for Aetna members that prevented them from getting prescriptions at Walgreens.