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PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS (PBMS)

America's pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) administer prescription drug benefits for more than 210 million Americans, whose health coverage is provided by Fortune 500 employers, health insurers, labor unions, and Medicare Part D. Their primary responsibility is processing and paying the drug claims, but they also develop and maintain the formulary, contract with pharmacies and negotiate discounts and rebates with drug manufacturers.

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Express Scripts pays $4.68B for WellPoint prescription unitmore

s WLP.N NextRx prescription business for $4.68-billion in a significant expansion for the large U.S. pharmacy benefit...

Express Scripts, WellPoint in $4.7B dealmore

Express Scripts to acquire pharmacy benefits management business of health insurer WellPoint. LONDON (CNNMoney.

Express Scripts' Buy Of WellPoint's PBM Benefits Both Cosmore

Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Inc.'s (ESRX) $4.675 billion acquisition of health insurer WellPoint Inc.

Economic Turndown Hits the Specialty Pharmacy Industry Hard more

With the economy in turmoil, the high costs of specialty drugs may pose big problems for various stakeholders.

Biologic agents: Their long-term safety -more

Biologic agents have become the treatment of choice for moderate-to-severe psoriasis and other conditions.

PCMA: New Blue Cross/Blue Shield Prescription-Drug Survey Confirms Gen...more

low, in large part because of expanded use and availability of generic drugs. PCMA represents the nation's pharmacy...

PBM transparency could be inevitablemore

The pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry has come under intense scrutiny to become more transparent in its...

Prior authorization balances dermatologic biologic usemore

The advent of costly biologic drugs for psoriasis hasn't inspired the inappropriate prescriptions many MCOs expected.

Caterpillar/Wal-Mart Rx Drug Pilot Scraps Use of Average Wholesale Pri...more

A new pharmacy benefit pilot program involving Caterpillar Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. cuts "significant...

Rx Issues Will Fit in Health Care Reform Mix, but May Wait Behind Othe...more

Congressional Democrats say they are poised to tackle comprehensive health care reform in the early days of the Obama...

Centene Corporation to Web Cast 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholdersmore

and commercial organizations to provide specialty services including behavioral health, life and health management,...

Research and Markets: Drug Benefit Trends in the United States - Asses...more

and the Uninsured * Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) * Medco Health * Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) *...

Eliza Corporation and Kaiser Permanente's Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medi...more

and financial savings. Eliza's clients include the nation's leading health plans, disease management firms,...

Enrollment in Employer-Contracted Pharmacy Benefit 'Carve-Out' Increas...more

and July 2008 enrollment in pharmacy benefit plans for which employers contract directly with a pharmacy benefit...

CVS Caremark Study Documents Changes in Prescription Drug Use to Treat...more

to 6 million commercially insured US children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years from the CVS Caremark PBM pharmacy...

CVS Caremark Discusses Role of Health IT to Optimize Pharmacy Health C...more

healthcare outcomes through its more than 6,900 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drugs stores; its Caremark Pharmacy Services...

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