As someone apart of the pharmacy side- being that Cigna has no pharmacy do you think we would be safe?
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I guess someone who wants to add mail order to their pharmacy, like walmart?, could buy cenrerwell pharmacy ... just a guess tho
What would centerwell do as its own company? What customers would it serve?
There’s a chance they would just buy the insurance side leaving CenterWell as it’s own separate company.
If you find yourself in a merger with cigna and you by chance are picked up by the express scripts folks, run away. Most ESI was the most vile PBM before being bought by Cigna. Express Scripts bought Anthem's mail-order pharmacy NextRX back in the 2009 era and their layoff the following day had you either go into the left lane or the right lane to pick up your badge. If you were ordered to the left lane you were laid off. The right lane folks found themselves with new managers new roles and some roles were eliminated 6 months later. Cigna doesn't need anything Humana has, other than Humana's membership.
ESI- Express Scripts International
PBM- Pharmacy Benefits Manager
What is ESI and PBM?
It means: job hunt NOW.
Express scripts wrote the book on home delivery pharmacy. Esi is one of the big 3 pbms in the US. They own accredo specialty pharmacy. they have everything they need in terms of pharmacy.
ESI has pharmacy assets. There’s going to be a ton of overlap with our PBM and theirs. And with the pharmacy.