Increased specialty utilization and drug inflation were the driving factors for overall drug trend more than doubling in 2014, according to a new report. Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Catamaran Corp. today released its annual Informed Trends report for 2014. Overall commercial drug trend was 5.7 percent in 2014, more than …
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UnitedHealth to Acquire Pharmacy Benefit Manager Catamaran for $12.8 Billion
Today, health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. agreed to acquire pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Catamaran Corp. for about $12.8 billion. Catamaran, the fourth-largest PBM in the US by volume of prescriptions processed, will be merged into OptumRx, UnitedHealth Group’s free-standing pharmacy care services business. UnitedHealth will pay $61.50 per share in …