advancepcs造句

• Caremark will also assume about $ 400 million of AdvancePCS debt.
• Others include AdvancePCS, Express Scripts and Caremark Rx.
• AdvancePCS is a principal manager for drug purchases in retail stores by federal employees.
• AdvancePCS manages prescription drug benefits for health plans and helps employers design cost-effective benefit plans.
• He did the research while at AdvancePCS Center for Work and Health in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
• They include two suits against Merck-Medco and others filed last month against Express Scripts and AdvancePCS.
• The company generally fills about 40 Cipro prescriptions a week there, said Blair Jackson, an AdvancePCS spokesman.
• The research was undertaken y AdvancePCS Center for Work and Health and reviewed by independent medical professionals before publication.
• Such companies, including Merck-Medco, Express Scripts and AdvancePCS, negotiate discounts with drug manufacturers and pharmacies.
• AdvancePCS has built a strong base of managed-care customers while Caremark Rx has focused on the employer marketplace.
• In 2003 it merged with AdvancePCS seen as a key move in ensuring the growth and profitability of the company.
• The three largest pharmacy benefit managers, Medco, Express Scripts and AdvancePCS, promote generics with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
• AdvancePCS says it provides vouchers that plan members can exchange at the pharmacy for a free first bottle of a generic prescription.
• AdvancePCS confirmed that it received payments from drug companies for letters sent to doctors and patients urging them to use particular drugs.
• Analysts said investors overreacted to the news, sending AdvancePCS shares plummeting almost 25 percent in trading Thursday morning on the Nasdaq market.
• Medco and AdvancePCS also said generics sales were in the mid-40 percent range in retail pharmacies and food and discount stores.
• Jeff Jackson, a vice president of AdvancePCS, a managed-care pharmacy company that covers 80 million Americans, listed several challenges:
• The Bush plan would use firms like AdvancePCS to act as " a buying club " for participating seniors, he said.
• David D . Halbert, chairman of AdvancePCS, said, " We are held accountable through the competitive bidding process ."
• AdvancePCS, itself the result of a merger with PCS, formerly owned by McKesson, the drug wholesaler, covers about 35 million people.