Managing Benefits Plans

When Dollar General was facing a 26 percent increase in its prescription drug costs following several years of double digit rises, it knew it had to do something. So the Scottsville, Ky.-headquartered company, with 8,000 stores primarily in the Southeast and Midwest and 75,000 employees (38,000 of whom were eligible for full-time benefits), took three steps to get its pharmacy drug costs in line.