Capital BlueCross & Prime Therapeutics Form Strategic Partnership

Capital BlueCross is forming a partnership with pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics, based in Eagan, Minnesota. The two entities entered into a three-year, full-service agreement effective at the beginning of the year that covers commercial and individual market members, as well as members enrolled in Capital BlueCross' Medicare and Children's Health Insurance Program. Capital BlueCross, serving central Pennsylvania, is currently the only health plan in Pennsylvania to offer the benefits of Prime Therapeutics to its members.

The agreement expands the relationship begun last year, when Prime began providing specialty drug management services to Capital BlueCross' commercial and . . .