Express Scripts Announces Single-Solution Approach to Pharma Services Through HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Express Scripts has launched a suite of services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies through HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech, providing a single-solution approach to patient care.  

HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech offers a full range of integrated services to assist pharmaceutical and biotech companies in providing prescription products and services to patients, physicians and pharmacists. These services include: CuraScript Specialty Pharmacy, CuraScript Specialty Distribution, Freedom Fertility Pharmacy, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS), reimbursement, patient assistance programs (PAP), data and sales reporting, enhanced account services, and customized adherence programs.

"Through our HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech suite of services, Express Scripts is taking a bold, unified approach to helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies get their therapies and products to patients and healthcare providers," explains Everett Neville, Express Scripts' vice president, chief trade relations officer. "We are committed to providing the highest level of end-to-end services that will facilitate the safe, timely delivery of specialty prescriptions and programs to patients being treated for diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, HIV, and multiple sclerosis."

Part of the Express Scripts family, HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech brings comprehensive, industry insight into the multiple programs that impact the lifecycle of a drug. With the launch of its new website, www.TheHealthBridgeSolution.com, HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech provides comprehensive information about its services, as well as updates affecting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

About HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech

HealthBridge Pharma & Biotech provides a suite of services offering pharmaceutical and biotech companies a single solution approach to patient care. These services include: CuraScript Specialty Pharmacy, CuraScript Specialty Distribution, Freedom Fertility Pharmacy, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS), reimbursement, patient assistance programs (PAP), data and sales reporting, enhanced account services, and customized adherence programs.

About Express Scripts

Express Scripts, Inc., one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America, is leading the way toward creating better health and value for patients through Consumerology®, the advanced application of the behavioral sciences to healthcare. This approach is helping millions of members realize greater healthcare outcomes and lowering cost by assisting in influencing their behavior. Headquartered in St. Louis, Express Scripts provides integrated PBM services including network-pharmacy claims processing, home delivery services, specialty benefit management, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, and medical and drug data analysis services. The company also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care services. More information can be found at http://www.express-scripts.com/ and http://www.consumerology.com/.

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