Tag Archives: Catamaran

April, 2015

• 1 April

  Catamaran Report Finds Drug Inflation and Increased Specialty Utilization Drives Increase in Drug Trend

  

  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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March, 2015

• 30 March

  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 …

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