( LOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR ) - Louisiana has shifted one of its two large pharmacy benefits contracts for state employees away from CVS Health, but Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers kept the most lucrative agreement with that pharmacy giant in place.

The state Office of Group Benefits will now use two pharmacy benefit managers for its health insurance plans that cover state government employees, public school teachers, local government workers, retirees and their families. Previously, it had only used the CVS Caremark, a subsidiary of CVS Health.

Louisiana lawmakers signed a new arrangement Thursday with Southern Scripts, owned by Louisiana-based Liviniti LLC, that pays the company $390.6 million to handle commercial insurance plans for the Office of Group Benefits. They also appr

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