No Headwinds Here: Managed Care Giants Tout Strong 2Q for PBM Segments

Amid ongoing concerns about heightened health care utilization, Medicaid redeterminations and even risk adjustment, major managed care companies in their second-quarter 2023 earnings reports made sure to emphasize the strong performance of their health care services segments — which happen to house the country’s three largest PBMs.

The Cigna Group, which owns the PBM Express Scripts under its Evernorth division, kicked off its quarterly earnings call on Aug. 3 with CEO David Cordani singing Evernorth’s praises.

“In Evernorth Health Services, we saw another strong quarter of our market-leading pharmacy, care and benefits portfolio,” Cordani said. “Express Scripts, our pharmacy benefits business, harnesses our deep relationships, extensive clinical expertise, and is delivering innovations and innovative solutions for those we serve.”

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Leslie Small

Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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