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 top three PBMs "have somewhat different value propositions. Express Scripts operates independently of retail providers and health plans, CVS/Caremark can provide product and pharmacy services through its owned retail pharmacy network, and Optum Rx can coordinate pharmacy services with its health plan parent when a payer client contracts with both. While all three own and operate specialty pharmacies, their corporate family affiliations — or lack of them — yield differences in how specialty pharmacy is received and perceived.... OptumRx is an important PBM, and specialty pharmacy, primarily due to its relationship to UnitedHealthcare. But at its current size and market share, it does not lead either sector — disadvantages that the acquisition of Catamaran corrects."



— Elan Rubinstein, Pharm. D., principal at EB Rubinstein Associates, told AIS's Specialty Pharmacy News.