Amazon-PillPack Pushes Against CVS with Prescription Deliveries; Also Seeking PBM Status

In a previous note, I discussed how CVS was fighting back against its retail drug competitor Amazon-PillPack by slow-walking its prescription transfers to PillPack when requested by customers (see:Resistance to PillPack's Requests for Prescription Transfers from Retail Drug Stores). Here's a quote from my blog note about CVS's response:CVS certainly can't be counted out of this battle yet on the basis of pressure from PillPack and its web competitors (ExactCare Pharmacy,Remedi SeniorCare,PharmaPoint,Blink Health andPipelineRx). For example, CVS has announced same-day home delivery of drugs (see:CVS to offer customers same-day delivery for prescriptions). With its current retail pharmacy operation, consultation with pharmacists is [also] possible.It turns out that PillPack still has some tricks up its sleeve; it's attempting to morph into a PBM to compete with CVS'sCaremark (see:Amazon Wants To Cut PBMs Out Of Drug Sales Pipeline By Contracting Directly With Health Plans, Employers). Here is quote from this article with more details:Court documents in a case about personnel revealed the strategy that many in the industry fear.Amazon is seeking to contract directly with health plans and employers to sell prescription drugs through its PillPack subsidiary, a move that would cut out existing pharmacy benefit managers and potentially reshape the sale and distribution of medicines in the U.S.....The revelations are contained in a lawsuit CVS filed in A...
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