CVS

Move adds to drug chain’s string of deals in pharma, health and analytics.

CVS processes drug benefits for insurers including Aetna, and also runs a chain of drug stores.

Insurer opts instead to build its own such business in collaboration with CVS Health as it looks to contain its spiraling drug costs.

CVS Caremark reports specialty drugs consuming nearly 36% of overall gross spend on prescriptions.

CVS Caremark reports specialty drugs consuming nearly 36% of overall gross spend on prescriptions.

Pharmacy benefits managers lay out lobby plan in strategy memo as the middlemen are now taking it from all sides.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s OptumRx unit struck an agreement to ease customers’ access to drugs through Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s drugstores, a move to help the business compete with rival pharmacy benefit managers.