In a conference call after the company's fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2011 earnings release, Walgreen executives outlined three potential situations in which they could retain 25 to 75 percent of the customers who have Express Scripts benefit plans.
"When he thought the script benefited him and the Yankees' personality, and that it was fun and in good taste, he did it," he said.
In some cases, as with Express Scripts, pharmacy-benefit managers have agreed to work with other Internet druggists, but the biggest ones, like Medco Health, have not.
The script could benefit from sharper editing to eliminate a few of the more plainly crowd-pleasing, extraneous characters.
Express Scripts manages drug benefits for New York State employees.
Express Scripts manages drug benefits for 38.5 million people.
Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager, is contributing to the prize administration.
One of the contractors is Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits management concern.
"The payer doesn't know, and the P.B.M. doesn't know," said F. Everett Neville, chief trade relations officer at Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager.
That ramp-up is already evident: Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager, says its spending on biologics grew 10percentt last year, compared with 2.5percentt for other drugs.
A reader, James Turnage, wrote to report his dismay with the automated prescription ordering system operated by Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits provider he is required to use by his employer.
