Max Nisen, Columnist

Anthem Plays Hardball

Keeping the insurer's business will require concessions.

January 13, 2016 at 7:27 PM UTC

Max Nisen is a healthcare analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He previously wrote for Bloomberg Opinion, Quartz and Business Insider.

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In a fight with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, insurance giant Anthem is throwing its weight around.

Express Scripts has a 10-year contract, expiring in 2019, to help cut drug prices for the people Anthem insures. The contract lets Anthem periodically review what it pays for drugs and negotiate new pricing terms. The companies had been talking quietly about adjusting those terms.