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Express Scripts CEO: “I Don’t Mind If Amazon Comes In”

 
• By Jessica Merrill

The pharmacy benefit manager had a rosy view at the J.P. Morgan conference on the online retailer potentially entering the drug distribution market. That may be because CEO Wentworth views them as a partner.

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Rumors that [Amazon.com Inc.] could enter the drug distribution market and upend the way patients buy their drugs have been rampant, and it doesn’t look like they are going to die down in 2018. Express Scripts Holding Co. CEO Timothy Wentworth hinted Jan. 8 during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that the pharmacy benefit manager has talked with Amazon about pharmacy distribution, though he wouldn’t say if they have discussed collaborating outright.

Wentworth was asked if he could confirm whether or not Express Scripts has participated in any partnering discussions with Amazon during a breakout session – and he did not confirm...

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