APCI to Feds: Stop Further Healthcare Vertical Integration in Optum-Amedisys Deal
The acquisition represents a further descent into an already vertically integrated healthcare supply chain.
- The acquisition represents a further descent into an already vertically integrated healthcare supply chain.
- "APCI has been one of the loudest and most consistent voices in opposing further vertical and horizontal integration by large insurers and their affiliated PBMs," said APCI CEO Tim Hamrick.
- "Community pharmacists have seen first-hand what vertical integration has done in pharmacy and the burden it has caused patients.
- APCI is committed to advocating on behalf of patients and the community pharmacies that serve them against further large insurer/PBM integration before agencies, U.S. Congress, and in the states."