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Drug Channels: The Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers of 2020: …

WEBWe estimate that for 2020, the big three PBMs—CVS Health (including Caremark and Aetna), the Express Scripts business of Cigna, and the OptumRx …

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How Cigna’s Growing Pharmacy Platform Expands Its Channel Power

WEBLast week, Cigna released its earnings for the first quarter of 2021. Links below. I was struck by how quickly Cigna’s Express Scripts PBM business has …

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Drug Channels: Vertical Integration Lessons: The Economics and

WEBAs many of you know, hospitals and health systems have emerged as significant participants in the specialty pharmacy industry. A new American Society of …

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New Report: How GoodRx Improves the Economics of Healthcare

WEBThere’s a new GoodRx research report to help pharma manufacturers better understand how the economics of healthcare have an immediate, increasing, and wide …

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Drug Channels: The State of Employers’ Pharmacy Benefits: A …

WEBIT'S EASY TO TRACE Below, we compare cost sharing for prescription drugs in HDHPs/SOs with plans that lack high deductibles. The first chart below shows …

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Drug Channels: DCI’s Top 15 Specialty Pharmacies of 2021—And …

WEBIn Drug Channels Institute’s list of the top 15 pharmacies of 2021, we show that central-fill, mail pharmacies operated by large PBMs and health insurers have …

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Five (or Maybe Six

WEBIn The Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers of 2022: Market Share and Trends for the Biggest Companies, I shared Drug Channels Institute's analysis showing that …

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What’s Behind CVS Health’s Novel Vertical Integration Strategy for

WEBThe Cordavis strategy offers CVS Health multiple, new ways to improve its profitability. These could include: Absorbing a portion of a biosimilar manufacturer’s …

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Mapping the Vertical Integration of Insurers, PBMs, Specialty

WEBYesterday’s reflections on Asembia’s Specialty Pharmacy Summit included a link to the general session slides. My portion of the deck included an updated mapping …

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Understanding CVS Health/McKesson and Why Pharmacies Lose …

WEBConsider two apparently unrelated drug channel anomalies: In McKesson’s 2023 fiscal year, CVS bought $75 billion in pharmaceuticals from McKesson’s wholesale …

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McKesson Leads Another Round of PSAO Consolidation

WEBMcKesson Leads Another Round of PSAO Consolidation. Last week, McKesson announced the formation of Health Mart Atlas (HMA), a joint venture …

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Drug Channels: Small Pharmacies Walk Away from Medicare Part …

WEBHere are the first two in the series: Preferred Pharmacy Networks in 2023’s Medicare Part D Plans: Cigna, CVS Health, Humana, UnitedHealthcare, WellCare, and …

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Mapping the Vertical Integration of Insurers, PBMs, Specialty

WEBVarious transactions have combined companies that offer health insurance with PBMs that operate specialty pharmacies. These include CVS Health’s acquisition …

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Medicare Part D in 2024: The Seven Largest Companies' Preferred

WEBNote that Rite Aid’s Elixir PBM will no longer offer a PDP for 2024. As part of Rite Aid’s bankruptcy, MedImpact will acquire Elixir "subject to the outcome of a court …

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Drug Channels: Drug Wholesalers and Brand-Name Drug Prices

WEBConsider two apparently unrelated drug channel anomalies: In McKesson’s 2023 fiscal year, CVS bought $75 billion in pharmaceuticals from McKesson’s wholesale …

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Drug Channels: Small Pharmacies Continue to Run Away from …

WEBHere are the first two in the series: Consolidation and Preferred Pharmacy Networks in 2022’s Medicare Part D Plans: Cigna, CVS Health, Humana, …

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Drug Channels: My Op-Ed: Securing the Supply Chain

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Drug Channels: Drug Channels News Roundup, December 2023: …

WEBIn Five (or Maybe Six?)Reasons that the Largest PBMs Operate Group Purchasing Organizations, I profiled the group purchasing organizations (GPOs) that …

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Latest CMS Data Reveal the Truth About U.S. Drug Spending

WEBFrom 2018 through 2021, CMS computed that overall drug prices fell, so nonprice factors accounted for more than 100% of the changes in spending. CMS …

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