Amazon-Express Scripts Partnership? PBM Sees Opportunity In Uninsured Market

Express Scripts points to a relatively untapped market of 30m uninsured individuals who could be reached through a collaboration with Amazon if the e-commerce giant ventures into Rx drug sales.

Hitting bigger business target

Express Scripts Holding Co. sees opportunity in the possibility that online retailing giant Amazon may be moving into prescription drug sales, President and CEO Tim Wentworth told analysts Oct. 26.

Amazon has not publicly announced plans for entering the prescription drug arena. But recent reports that the company has been...

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