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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.
Three companies controlled 79% of U.S. pharmacy benefit management in 2022, according to the data platform Statista: CVS Caremark with 33%, Express Scripts at 24%, and OptumRx owns 22% of the market.
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 ...
Pharmacy benefit management — working with employers, health plans companies and government programs — dominate the specialty pharmacy market in the United States since at 2008. According to the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), "Historically, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator of prescription drug programs.
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]
PhRMA spent more than $21 million on federal lobbying during the first nine months of 2023, twice as much as the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, a PBM trade group, spent through the ...
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]
As experts and lawmakers attempt to reduce prescription drug costs in the United States, some are setting their sights on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the organizations that negotiate drug ...