31.   The discounts would be set through negotiations between drug makers and the pharmacy benefit managers.

32.   The FTC said it would monitor all deals involving drug makers acquiring pharmacy benefit managers like PCS.

33.   The insurer is working with Merck-Medco, a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Merck, to provide the generic drug samples.

34.   The pharmacy benefit manager negotiates the complex arrangements behind that transaction.

35.   The pharmacy benefit managers are already connected electronically to pharmacies, using uniform software standards.

36.   The plaintiffs said the drug manufacturers denied them discounts offered to health management organizations, hospitals, pharmacy benefits managers and others.

37.   The plan can also help enrollees get lower drug prices by using private pharmacy benefit managers to deal with drug manufacturers on prices.

38.   The report detailed how pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have entered the prescription drug business.

39.   The taxpayer-paid coverage has resulted in a phone fury, said Jerry Wells, state pharmacy program manager.

40.   They want private pharmacy benefit managers to administer a drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries.