Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Pharmacy benefit managers are companies that handle prescription drug benefits for health insurance companies, large employers, and Medicare prescription drug plans - a group often referred to as ...
Pharmacy benefit management. In the United States, a pharmacy benefit manager ( PBM) is a third-party administrator of prescription drug programs for commercial health plans, self-insured employer plans, Medicare Part D plans, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and state government employee plans.
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry faces pressure from the federal government, which is looking for ways to curb ...
Walgreens ( WBA) is standing up a new specialty pharmacy segment to compete in an increasingly crowded pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) and specialty pharmacy space. The company announced Thursday ...
Express Scripts Holding Company is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization. In 2017 it was the 22nd-largest company in the United States by total revenue as well as the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the United States. [2] Express Scripts had 2016 revenues of $100.752 billion. [2]
Caremark was founded as a physician and pharmacy benefits management company in 1993. [1] It was founded in Birmingham, Alabama as MedPartners, Inc. by former HealthSouth Corporation chief executive Richard Scrushy. [1] New Enterprise Associates was an initial investor in the company. [2] MedPartners went public in February 1995. [3]
In 2007, CareMark merged with CVS in what many thought was an odd combination, one of the nation’s leading retail pharmacies with one of the nation’s leading pharmacy benefit managers.
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) is an American national trade association representing pharmacy benefit managers.According to the association's mission statement, PCMA advocates on behalf of its member companies, which claim to improve affordability of prescription drugs and quality of care through the use of tools such as electronic prescribing (e-prescribing), promoting ...