Tag Archives: CVS/Caremark

No, not that word! The other “F” word…Fiduciary!  At WBC (www.wbcbaltimore.com) we have been asking our clients to keep this word in mind.  Trustees of multi-employer plans (and other types of plan sponsors) need to remember that the decisions they make are guided by the judgement of being a fiduciary.   This means that their decisions […]

2016 will be a crazy year for PBMs and plan sponsors of pharmacy benefit programs. The cast of characters continues to shrink through market consolidation, and most analysts believe that the trend will continue. At Wilkinson Benefit Consultants (wbcbaltimore.com), we’ve listened to plan sponsors raise the questions of “Where do we turn?” and “How can […]

The PBM world is shaken up again with United Healthcare’s announcement that it will acquire Catamaran and combine it with their current PBM operation, OptumRx. The deal was announced with United paying a 27% premium for the right to solidify it’s number three position in  the lineup of the latest arrangement of “The Big Three” […]