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New Jersey Jobs, Pharmacy Choice Endangered by Proposed Express Scripts-Medco Merger
Date:1/27/2012

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Jersey would lose over 2,400 jobs, local economies would suffer and patients may be denied their choice of pharmacy if the proposed mega-merger of two prescription drug middlemen goes through, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) said today.

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"Unless this merger is stopped, pharmacists fear that virtually everyone in the Garden State will lose," said NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA. "Patients could be forced to use mail order pharmacies, some local jobs and economic activity would disappear and prescription drug prices would increase."

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently reviewing the proposed merger of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Express Scripts, Inc. and Franklin Lakes-based Medco Health Solutions. The multi-billion-dollar companies are already among the country's largest PBMs, which administer prescription drug plans and operate mail order pharmacies.

In New Jersey, the companies collectively manage pharmacy benefits for 350,000 state employees and their dependents as well as 39,775 of the Defense Department's TRICARE beneficiaries.

By merging, a combined Express Scripts-Medco company would have unprecedented market dominance and face considerable shareholder pressure to grow its mail order pharmacy's market share. Should the mega-PBM convert 30 percent of the retail prescriptions that it manages to mail order (a conservative assumption), NCPA estimates that independent community pharmacies would lose $88.3 million in annual revenue and lay off 1,718 full-time employees. Other ancillary businesses in New Jersey would lose an estimated $75.9 million in annual revenue and will lay off 687 full-time employees.

In reality, the economic losses for the state
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