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The top 25 pharmacy chain stores represent about 38,000 pharmacy locations in the U.S. and employ about 149,000 on-staff pharmacists. California has 8,015 pharmacies, the most of any state. Texas , Florida , New York , and Pennsylvania round out the top five states for pharmacy locations. [ 1 ]
In January 2019, Walmart announced that it would no longer use CVS Caremark as its pharmacy benefit manager. [19] In January 2020, CVS Caremark announced RxZero, a program that would allow patients with diabetes to pay no copays. [20] In February 2020, Alan Lotvin was appointed president of CVS Caremark. [21]
CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations (over 9,600 as of 2016) and total prescription revenue. [ 8 ] [ 5 ] [ 9 ] Its parent company ranks as the fifth largest U.S. corporation by FY2020 revenues in the Fortune 500 . [ 4 ]
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The co-located clinics and pharmacies were the result of a $5 billion Walgreens partnership in 2020 prior to Wentworth's arrival last year, and were part of a broader strategy to be more health ...
CVS Pharmacy fills more than one of every five prescriptions in the United States, and 85% of U.S. population lives within 10 miles of a CVS Pharmacy. [44] The ExtraCare loyalty program boasts over 70 million cardholders, making it the largest retail loyalty program in the country. [45]
One Walgreens pharmacy in Fort Myers, Florida, ordered 95,800 pills in 2009, but by 2011, this number had jumped to 2.2 million pills in one year. Another example was a Walgreens pharmacy in Hudson, Florida, a town of 34,000 people near Clearwater, that purchased 2.2 million pills in 2011, the DEA said.
As of 2023, PBMs managed pharmacy benefits for 275 million Americans and the three largest PBMs in the US, CVS Caremark, Cigna Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, make up about 80% of the market share covering about 270 million people [4] [5] with a market of almost $600 billion in 2024.