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This excerpt taken from the CVS 10-K filed Feb 27, 2009. Overview of Our Pharmacy Services Segment Our Pharmacy Services business provides a full range of prescription benefit management (PBM) services including mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management and claims processing. Our customers are primarily employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, managed care organizations and other sponsors of health benefit plans and individuals throughout the United States. As a pharmacy benefits manager, we manage the dispensing of pharmaceuticals through our mail order pharmacies and national network of approximately 60,000 retail pharmacies (which include our CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug stores) to eligible participants in the benefit plans maintained by our customers and utilize our information systems to perform, among other things, safety checks, drug interaction screenings and brand to generic substitutions. Our specialty pharmacies support individuals that require complex and expensive drug therapies. Our specialty pharmacy business includes mail order and retail specialty pharmacies that operate under the Caremark® and CarePlus CVS/pharmacy names. Substantially all of our mail service specialty pharmacies have been accredited by The Joint Commission. We also provide health management programs, which include integrated disease management for 27 conditions, through our Accordant Care health management offering. The majority of these integrated programs are accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. In addition, through our SilverScript Insurance Company (SilverScript) and Accendo Insurance Company (Accendo) subsidiaries, we are a national provider of drug benefits to eligible beneficiaries under the Federal Governments Medicare Part D program. The Company acquired Accendo in the Longs Acquisition (defined later in this document), and, effective January 1, 2009, Accendo replaced RxAmerica as the Medicare-approved prescription drug plan for the RxAmerica Medicare Part D drug benefit plans.
This excerpt taken from the CVS 10-K filed Feb 27, 2008. Overview of Pharmacy Services Segment Our pharmacy services business provides comprehensive prescription benefit management services to over 2,000 health benefit plans. These services include mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management and claims processing. Our customers are primarily sponsors of health benefit plans (employers, unions, government employee groups, insurance companies and managed care organizations) and individuals located throughout the United States. As a pharmacy benefits manager, we manage the dispensing of pharmaceuticals through our mail order pharmacies and our national network of 60,000 retail pharmacies (which include CVS/pharmacy stores) to eligible participants in benefit plans maintained by our customers and utilize our information systems to perform safety checks, drug interaction screening and generic substitution. Our pharmacy services business also includes our specialty pharmacy business. Our specialty pharmacies support individuals that require complex and expensive drug therapies. Substantially all of our mail service specialty pharmacies have been accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. We also provide health management programs, which include integrated disease management for 27 conditions through our Accordant® health management offering. The majority of these integrated programs are accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (the NCQA).
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