{"id":505,"date":"2018-03-08T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-04-02T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:30:42","slug":"express-scripts-acquired-by-cigna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/express-scripts-acquired-by-cigna\/","title":{"rendered":"Express Scripts Acquired by Cigna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Cigna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigna.com\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2018\/cigna-to-acquire-express-scripts-for-67-billion\">announced<\/a> they were acquiring Express Scripts, a Pharmacy Benefit Managment Company (PBM), for $67 Billion.. Express is the last of the large independent PBMs and becomes part of a vertical integration strategy for Cigna.<\/p>\n<p>This massive acquisition will be interesting to watch. How will Express&#8217; current clients feel about this merger with an insurer that is likely a direct competitor? Will there be changes in the pharmacy networks and reimbursement to independent pharmacies?<\/p>\n<p>The mergers continue in the the healthcare sector and we will be monitoring for our clients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Cigna announced they were acquiring Express Scripts, a Pharmacy Benefit Managment Company (PBM), for $67 Billion.. Express is the last of the large independent PBMs and becomes part of a vertical integration strategy for Cigna. This massive acquisition will be interesting to watch. How will Express&#8217; current clients feel about this merger with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinpharmacyinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}