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Calling it a move to accelerate “efforts to create greater efficiencies in the health care system,” St. Louis pharmacy benefit management company Express Scripts Inc. announced Thursday it is merging ...

(Reuters) - Express Scripts Holding Co built a multi-billion enterprise pressuring drug companies to lower their prices for U.S. patients. Now it is quietly building a side business: getting paid to ...

On the heels of a similar announcement from Optum Rx, pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts said Monday that it will add three biosimilars to its formulary to compete with Humira. The PBM ...

Kroger is threatening to exit Express Scripts' network if the pharmacy benefit manager does not agree to a more “equitable and fair” contract. Kroger said it has attempted--to no avail--to negotiate ...

Pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts is rolling out multiple new programs in a bid to evolve its model to be more transparent and predictable for patients and plan sponsors. The company, ...

Oct 20 (Reuters) - A group of pharmacies has filed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Cigna Group's CI.N pharmacy benefit manager unit Express Scripts Inc of conspiring with another company to ...

Walmart signed a three-year contract extension with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, which will allow Express Scripts’ covered members to access Walmart’s prescription services. As part of ...

Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits management business of the Cigna Group's Evernorth, will add three additional biosimilars to its National Preferred Formulary that it said will compete with ...

ST. LOUIS – Express Scripts Inc. (ESRX), one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers, said Thursday it plans to buy specialty pharmaceutical distributor Priority Healthcare Corp. (PHCC) in a ...

ST. LOUIS — Supermarket operators are preparing for an uptick in pharmacy business as Walgreens was scheduled to end its contract with pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts on Jan. 1. "Many ...