CVS Caremark is the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) subsidiary of CVS Health, which provides prescription benefit management, mail order pharmacy, and specialty pharmacy services, under the ...

The Rio-based network of independent pharmacies blames drug industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

when it bought pharmacy benefits manager Caremark for $21 billion. While that deal proved beneficial to CVS, notably by helping to build a larger mail-order pharmacy and making it a big player in ...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy ...

While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice ...

First, the three biggest players — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum ... and to instead fill them via the benefit managers’ mail-order pharmacies. That tactic has hastened the demise ...

Criticism of prescription drug middlemen has intensified recently in the wake of a federal agency’s actions and legislative reform attempts. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, though, vetoed a related bill that ...

20, the FTC sued three of the largest pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Health's Caremark ... pharmacy benefit managers — including their operating their own retail, mail-order and specialty pharmacies ...