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56% of employers using Big 3 PBMs consider switch
Fifty-six percent of employer clients of “Big Three” pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx — are thinking about switching in the next one to three years. The 2026 “Pulse of the Purchaser” survey, released Aug. 11 by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, included 408 responses […] The post 56% of employers using Big 3 PBMs consider switch appeared first on Becker's Payer Issues | Payer News .
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Medicaid Managed Care: The Big Five in Q2 2026
The “Big Five” have announced their results for the calendar quarter ending June 30. They are, of course, the five publicly-traded companies with the largest presence in the Medicaid managed care market, together accounting for about half of all Medicaid enrollees: Centene Corporation, CVS Health/Aetna, Elevance Health, Molina Healthcare, and UnitedHealth Group. The Medicaid market […]
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