CVS Health’s profit beats estimates on PBM business strength
The drugstore chain also saw a boost in its specialty pharmacy business, which provides drugs for expensive chronic conditions....
The BI Top 10
Marsh severance benefits dispute and health savings account business exits are among Business Insurance's top 10 most read features....
Express Scripts plans fiercer fight against sudden drug price hikes
The PBM plans to introduce several benefit programs aimed at fighting high drug costs, its chief medical officer said....
Week in pictures
Hacks, settlements and cyber reticence lead the Business Insurance week in pictures, but that’s not all. View the gallery.
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Week in pictures
Hacks, settlements and cyber reticence lead the Business Insurance week in pictures, but that's not all....
First of CVS Pharmacies within Target stores open in North Carolina
Target shoppers in Charlotte will see a change of signage and expanded offerings in the retailer's pharmacy department....
Compounding pharmacies sue Express Scripts over ‘boycott’
According to the lawsuit filed Friday, Express Scripts and several other large pharmacy benefit managers conspired to drive six compounding...
U.S. drug benefit managers clamp down on specialty pharmacies
Specialty pharmacies that work closely with drugmakers are under scrutiny and U.S. managers of private prescription drug benefits are cutting...
Is Walgreens circling the PBM market?
When those in the know heard about Walgreens Boots Alliance’s plan to acquire rival Rite Aid, many thought of three...
U.S. insurers hold back Lilly’s death-defying diabetes drug
A promising new diabetes drug is being shunned by America's largest health insurers....
How the national drug debate is changing the pharmacy benefit business
The pharmacy benefit management industry is experiencing subtle changes, and a leadership shuffle at the country’s largest PBM has experts...
CVS Health in $48 million settlement of lawsuit over hiding loss
(Reuters) — CVS Health Corp. reached a $48 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. drugstore operator of fraudulently...
Narrow pharmacy networks may promote higher prescription compliance
Sometimes a person can have too many options. A new study finds that consumers who have limited access to pharmacy...
Brokers see growth on demand for employee benefit services
The largest publicly traded insurance brokers rode a slowly improving economy to single-digit organic growth during the first half of...
CVS to buy Target’s pharmacy, clinics businesses
(Reuters) — Drugstore operator CVS Health Corp. said it will acquire Target Corp.’s U.S. pharmacy and clinics businesses for about...
CVS to buy pharmacy services provider Omnicare for $10.1 billion
(Reuters) — CVS Health Corp., the second-largest U.S. drugstore operator, said on Thursday it will buy pharmacy services provider Omnicare...
(Reuters) — UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s planned takeover of No. 4 U.S. pharmacy benefits provider Catamaran Corp. will give the companies...
CVS warns new cholesterol drugs could break the health care bank
(Reuters) CVS Health on Monday warned that costs of a potent new class of cholesterol treatments and other specialty...
Rite Aid enters pharmacy benefit business with EnvisionRx buy
(Reuters) Drugstore operator Rite Aid Corp. said it would buy pharmacy benefit manager EnvisionRx for about $2 billion, entering...
Express Scripts presses for expansion of drugs it won’t cover
(Reuters) Express Scripts is taking an increasingly aggressive stance in price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies after winning discounts on...
CVS Health’s profit beats estimates on PBM business strength
The drugstore chain also saw a boost in its specialty pharmacy business, which provides drugs for expensive chronic conditions....
The BI Top 10
Marsh severance benefits dispute and health savings account business exits are among Business Insurance's top 10 most read features....
Express Scripts plans fiercer fight against sudden drug price hikes
The PBM plans to introduce several benefit programs aimed at fighting high drug costs, its chief medical officer said....
Week in pictures
Hacks, settlements and cyber reticence lead the Business Insurance week in pictures, but that’s not all. View the gallery.
...
Week in pictures
Hacks, settlements and cyber reticence lead the Business Insurance week in pictures, but that's not all....
First of CVS Pharmacies within Target stores open in North Carolina
Target shoppers in Charlotte will see a change of signage and expanded offerings in the retailer's pharmacy department....
Compounding pharmacies sue Express Scripts over ‘boycott’
According to the lawsuit filed Friday, Express Scripts and several other large pharmacy benefit managers conspired to drive six compounding...
U.S. drug benefit managers clamp down on specialty pharmacies
Specialty pharmacies that work closely with drugmakers are under scrutiny and U.S. managers of private prescription drug benefits are cutting...
Is Walgreens circling the PBM market?
When those in the know heard about Walgreens Boots Alliance’s plan to acquire rival Rite Aid, many thought of three...
U.S. insurers hold back Lilly’s death-defying diabetes drug
A promising new diabetes drug is being shunned by America's largest health insurers....
How the national drug debate is changing the pharmacy benefit business
The pharmacy benefit management industry is experiencing subtle changes, and a leadership shuffle at the country’s largest PBM has experts...
CVS Health in $48 million settlement of lawsuit over hiding loss
(Reuters) — CVS Health Corp. reached a $48 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. drugstore operator of fraudulently...
Narrow pharmacy networks may promote higher prescription compliance
Sometimes a person can have too many options. A new study finds that consumers who have limited access to pharmacy...
Brokers see growth on demand for employee benefit services
The largest publicly traded insurance brokers rode a slowly improving economy to single-digit organic growth during the first half of...
CVS to buy Target’s pharmacy, clinics businesses
(Reuters) — Drugstore operator CVS Health Corp. said it will acquire Target Corp.’s U.S. pharmacy and clinics businesses for about...
CVS to buy pharmacy services provider Omnicare for $10.1 billion
(Reuters) — CVS Health Corp., the second-largest U.S. drugstore operator, said on Thursday it will buy pharmacy services provider Omnicare...
(Reuters) — UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s planned takeover of No. 4 U.S. pharmacy benefits provider Catamaran Corp. will give the companies...
CVS warns new cholesterol drugs could break the health care bank
(Reuters) CVS Health on Monday warned that costs of a potent new class of cholesterol treatments and other specialty...
Rite Aid enters pharmacy benefit business with EnvisionRx buy
(Reuters) Drugstore operator Rite Aid Corp. said it would buy pharmacy benefit manager EnvisionRx for about $2 billion, entering...
Express Scripts presses for expansion of drugs it won’t cover
(Reuters) Express Scripts is taking an increasingly aggressive stance in price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies after winning discounts on...
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