PBMs Tout Client Wins, Rx Pricing Models on 4Q Earnings Calls

February 8

During the recent fourth-quarter earnings calls held by their diversified parent companies, the Big Three PBMs — The Cigna Group’s Express Scripts, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx and CVS Health Corp.’s Caremark — factored prominently into discussions of the firms’ financial results and future growth strategies.

When CVS Health reported its quarterly and full-year results on Feb. 7, CEO Karen Lynch wasted little time before describing what she called CVS’s “innovative models and offerings that create more transparency and choice for consumers and clients.”

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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.