Sentences with phrase «bigger pharmacy benefits»

Cigna announced it will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts.

The insurer Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Not exact matches

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding said Anthem, its biggest customer and one that has sued the company over claims of being overcharged, was unlikely to renew its contract after it ends in 2019.

The combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

A combined CVS - Aetna will reorder those options, leaving Express Scripts as the only standalone company big enough to easily provide pharmacy benefits to top employers.

Beyond combining medical and pharmacy benefits, providing primary care in CVS» retail clinics is a big part of part of the strategy behind the deal.

The big insurer, which acquired a chain of outpatient surgery centers earlier this year, has a wide array of profitable health care businesses like its own pharmacy benefit manager and various consulting arms through its Optum unit.

A pharmacy benefit management company and a big - box retailer led that trend in late February.

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