Express Scripts  SuccessStory

The clients themselves include health insurers, employers, government health programs, managed care organizations, third party administrators etc. it also supplies drugs and pharmaceuticals to pharmacies, clinics, providers etc.

It strives to provide safe and affordable drugs to it’s clients. The company publishes an annual drug report “Express Scripts Drug Report” and has been doing so since 1993. The report gives an analysis on drug usage, costs and utilization.

What started of as a physical report is now a web based report and is brought out each year by Express Scripts Research and New Solutions Lab.

Trajectory

Express Scripts happened when Medicare Glaser and Sanus Corp entered into a joint venture back in 1986. Medicare Glaser was running a retail chain of almost 80 pharmacies and had already established a steady market.

In 1989 New York Life Insurance Company Purchased Express Scripts. In 1992 it opened its doors to the public by becoming a publicly traded company.

The company began expanding by roping in other companies such as Ingersoll-Rand, FHP international, and Service Merchandise etc.In 1999 it purchased Diversified Pharmaceutical Services for a whopping seven hundred million dollars.

In December 2009 subsidiaries worth $4.675 of WellPoint of Indianapolis were purchased by Express Scripts. The acquisition of Medco Health Solutions in 2012 made Express Scripts the largest PBM in America.

Unique Features

When Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions merged, the company initiated it’s very own health science division which it christened Health Decision Science. The division takes in 3 approaches while trying to help people make better decisions, namely, consumerology (behavioral science) clinical specialization and actionable data.

In 1999 the company bought stocks in the online company PlanetRx.com, which allowed the company to start selling pharmaceuticals online, both prescription and over-the-counter ones. Express Scripts uses it’s prescriptions (which are more than one billion annually) to research and come up with better solutions to help out it’s customers.

Review

Since it’s initiation in 1986, Express Scripts has come a long way. As of 2013, it is a Fortune 100 company and is the twentieth largest company in the U.S. It ranks 66^th on Forbes’ list of innovative companies, 163^rd on the Global 2000, 58^th in sales, 335^th in profit, 453^rd in assets and 156^th in market value.