Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31478) has announced the addition of Pharmacy Benefit Management Market Overview to their offering.
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) organize the market for prescription drugs. Pharmacy benefit managers secure deep discounts from drug manufacturers and retail pharmacies for large employers or health plans. They try to influence doctors’ prescribing habits and encourage the use of lower-cost drugs, including generic substitutes for brand-name medicines. They strongly recommend certain drugs over others in each therapeutic category. PBMs administer prescription drug plans for more than 200 million Americans with drug coverage provided through the nation’s small and large employers, Taft-Hartley union plans, health insurers, state and federal-employee benefit plans, Medicare Advantage health plans, and state Medicaid plans. Mergers have nearly cut the number of PBMs in half, from more than 100 five years ago to about 55 today. The largest of the recent mergers consolidated Caremark Rx with AdvancePCS. Although the top five PBMs have a market share of nearly 60% when measured by number of covered lives, there are a number of smaller market players that are having a significant impact on the market place. Industry consolidation is likely to continue over the next few years. Our Pharmacy Benefit Management Market Overview, 300 pages in length, provides insight into the trends and issues affecting the market. Our Pharmacy Benefit Management Market Overview also identifies more than 50 of the leading market participants and provides a brief profile on each company, which includes (when available): the company background, strategy, products and services, financial and statistical information, and recent activities.
This Pharmacy Benefit Management Market Overview, published in February 2005 and nearly 300 pages in length, provides insight into the trends and issues affecting the market. This Pharmacy Benefit Management Market Overview also identifies more than 50 of the leading market participants and provides a brief profile on each company, which includes (when available): the company background, strategy, products and services, financial and statistical information, and recent activities.
Topics Covered
Industry Overview/Trends
PBM List by Covered Lives
ACS State Healthcare
Aetna Pharmacy Management
AmeriHealth Mercy
AmeriScript
Anthem Prescription Management
Argus Health Systems
BeneCard Services
BeneScript Services
Caremark Rx
CBCA Rx
CIGNA HealthCare/RxPRIME
PharmaCare Management Services
Envision Pharmaceutical Services
Express Scripts
First Health Services Corporation
4D Pharmacy Management
HealthExtras/Catalyst Rx
Health Information Designs
Health Net Pharmaceutical Services
HealthTrans
Kroger Prescription Plans
MaxorPlus
Managed Pharmacy Benefits/Medicine Shoppe
MedImpact Healthcare Systems
Medco Health Solutions
MIM/Scrip Solutions
Navitus Health Solutions
NBRx
New Benefits
NMHCRX
Northwest Pharmacy Services
Partners Rx Management
PBM Plus
Pequot Pharmaceutical Network
Pharmaceutical Care Network
Pharmaceutical Technologies/NPS
Pharmacy Services Group
Prescription Solutions
Prime Therapeutics
RESTAT
RxAmerica
RxStrategies
RxWest
Safeway-SMCRx
Serve You Custom Prescription Management
Systems Xcellence
Total Script
US Script
Walgreens Health Initiatives
WebMD Prescription Benefit Solutions
WellPoint Pharmacy Management
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Summary
Our Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Market Overview provides the information and analysis you need to gain an understanding of the PBM market and the trends which affect it. Our PBM Market Overview also identifies approximately 40 market participants and provides information on each company which includes (when available): company background, company strategy, products and services, financial and statistical information and recent activities.
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