What’s The Future For Medco’s Personalized Medicine Program?
Executive Summary
Express Scripts considers Medco’s personalized medicine program to be complementary to its own expertise in consumer behavior and care coordination, according to presentations on the proposed merger between the two pharmacy benefit managers. But it’s not clear how committed to the program Express Scripts will be.
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