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2. AdvancePCS - Wikipedia

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   AdvancePCS Inc. (Pharmaceutical Card System) was a large prescription benefit plan administrator from the United States, also known as a PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager). The company was partially purchased by McKesson in 1969 and fully in 1972. In 1994, the company was sold to Lilly for $4.4 billion. [1]

3. Middlemen have outsized influence on US drug prices, FTC says

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   Of the three biggest PBMs, CVS owns the nation's largest retail pharmacy chain, as well as insurance company Aetna. UnitedHealth and Cigna also have insurance units and own specialty pharmacies.

4. CVS Caremark - Wikipedia

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   US$ 36.7 billion (2006) Number of employees. 13,628 (2005) Parent. CVS Health. Website. www .caremark .com. CVS Caremark (formerly Caremark Rx) (stylized as CVScaremark, previously CVS / caremark) is the pharmacy benefit management subsidiary of CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island .

5. CVS will change the way it prices prescription drugs - AOL

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   CVS Caremark’s business suffered a significant blow over the summer when a major California health insurer, Blue Shield of California, announced it will no longer use the company as its pharmacy ...

6. Specialty drugs in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In their 2001 annual report, CVS anticipated that the "$16 billion specialty pharmacy market" would grow at "an even faster rate than traditional pharmacy due in large part to the robust pipeline of biotechnology drugs". [34] By 2014 CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Walgreens represented more than 50% of the specialty drug market in the United ...

7. Pharmacy benefit management - Wikipedia

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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. [ 1][ 2] PBMs operate inside of ...

8. CVS Health - Wikipedia

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   CVS Health Corporation. CVS Health Corporation is an American healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company is the world's second largest healthcare company, behind UnitedHealth Group.

9. Prior authorization - Wikipedia

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   Prior authorization is a check run by some insurance companies or third-party payers in the United States before they will agree to cover certain prescribed medications or medical procedures. [ 1] There are a number of reasons that insurance providers require prior authorization, including age, medical necessity, the availability of a generic ...