Health officials met with Walmart, Amazon on DTP drug sales, Bloomberg says

U.S. health officials met with with Walmart (WMT), Amazon (AMZN), and other retailers last week as part of an effort to help Americans get their medicines more directly from companies that make them, Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Jaewon Kang of Bloomberg report. The conversations between the Trump administration and experts from the straight-to-consumer drug industry are intended to explore streamlining the way Americans get their medicines and therefore lower costs, and while officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted the meeting to discuss options, it is unclear what approach and timeline the department might pursue. Walmart started offering prescription delivery in October, making it a competitor to Amazon, which runs a pharmacy division that offers same-day drug delivery in some locations, and has also partnered with Eli Lilly (LLY) to sell weight loss drugs directly to patients.