Pat Wechsler
Aetna teams with CVS to sell Medicare prescription drug plan
NEW YORK - Aetna Inc., the third-largest U.S. health insurer, and CVS Caremark Corp. will offer a Medicare prescription drug plan in the first...
Express Scripts-Medco deal may spur purchases by rivals
WASHINGTON - Express Scripts Inc.’s takeover of Medco Health Solutions Inc. may fuel acquisitions of specialty pharmacy benefit managers by rivals seeking to gain...
Express Scripts to buy Medco for $29.1 billion to gain scale
WASHINGTON - Express Scripts Inc. agreed to buy Medco Health Solutions Inc. for $29.1 billion to become the largest pharmacy-benefits manager in the U.S.
The...
Medco may seek acquisition with biggest contract imperiled
NEW YORK - Medco Health Solutions Inc., the pharmacy benefits manager that lost $3.5 billion in contracts since March, may seek acquisitions to make...
CVS wins $3 billion government benefits contract from Medco
NEW YORK - CVS Caremark Corp. won a $3 billion contract to provide pharmacy benefits to federal employees, easing concern that the largest U.S....
UnitedHealth races McKesson in $11B tech hunt spurred by health care...
NEW YORK - UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer, and McKesson Corp., the largest drug distributor, are vying for billions of dollars in...
Brown U. Medical 66th for social mission
NEW YORK – Harvard Medical School didn’t make it into the top 50 in a ranking based on how many primary-care doctors the schools...










