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Pharmacy benefit manager market shares, 2025

For 2025 an industry analyst counted 80 percent of equivalent prescription claims processed by three companies’ benefit managers.

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Counted by Adam Fein of Drug Channels from industry data; a 2023 study of 91 PBMs, which we could not read, is reported to give 31.3, 22.1 and 20.2 percent.

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  1. The Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers of 2025: Market Share and Key Industry Developments (rerun), Drug Channels, 9 Jun 2026. Scholarship & press
    For 2025, 80% of all equivalent prescription claims were processed by three companies: the CVS Caremark business of CVS Health, the Express Scripts business of Cigna, and the Optum Rx business of UnitedHealth Group.
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