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Catamaran Corporation (formerly SXC Health Solutions) is a Schaumburg, Illinois based pharmacy benefit management company that sells services related to pharmacy benefit management and medical record keeping to businesses in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions and HealthSpring sign PBM contract )〕 Working independently of the government and insurance companies allows it to operate as a third party verifier; the RxCLAIM online claim processing system allows for prescription drug claims to be processed online if the customer lives in and fills his/her prescription in the United States. SXC has three separate but interrelated business segments which deal with prescription drug programs. For 2013 23% of company revenue came from Cigna Corporation. Most of the company's growth came in 2008 when it doubled in size; Between 2005 and 2010 revenue increased 3,400%.〔 As a Canadian startup, the company received venture capital subsidies from the Canadian government in addition to private investments. These subsidies allowed the business to grow initially and establish its business model in advance of its initial public offering, which was offered through the NASDAQ exchange in 2009. The success of the mixed public and private approach in SXC's case has been called "perhaps the best example of the flexibility and the value added by the Canadian hybrid system."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=10 Moments in Canadian Tech Stock History that Changed the World SXC Health goes Public. )〕 In 2013 company revenue increased by 49% thanks to a full year of prescription claims at the Catalyst division, and additional volumes from newly acquired Restat.〔 On 30 March 2015, it was announced that Catamaran will be acquired by OptumRx (A UnitedHealth Group company).〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2015-03-30 )〕 ==History== Systems Xellence (SXC), founded in 1993, was a Canadian company that first went public in 1995 when it joined the TSX. Six years later, in 2001, it acquired ComCoTec, an Illinois-based software business.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=sxc health solutions tailor fit )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=cantech letter: Ranking Canada's Tech's )〕 After going public on the NASDAQ stock market in 2006, the company shifted its headquarters from Milton, Ontario to Chicago, the city ComCoTec was based in. SXC was one of the first companies to build technology used in pharmacy benefit management.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions: Built for Growth )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Toledo )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions Transforms Interactions with Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Using Sterling Business Integration Suite )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions receives 2007 Rx Benefit Innovation Award )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rx Benefit Innovation Awards Program )〕 In February 2008, eight months after the company changed its name to SXC Health Solutions, it acquired National Medical Health Card Systems, Inc. (NMHC) for US$143 million in a move that doubled its size and workforce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Making SXC Health Solutions a 'dominant player' (Chicago Business) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions to acquired NMHC )〕 It is now known as InformedRx, a division of SXC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=informedRx private company information )〕 On December 19, 2008, the company also acquired Zynchros, an eight-year-old Seattle-based formulary management business.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health Solutions acquires Zynchros Inc. )〕 SXC purchased private company MedfusionRx, Inc on December 2, 2010 for $100 million. Reasons for the acquisition include an interest in strengthening SXC's position in the speciality pharmacy market and improving cost cutting capabilities in the management of complex conditions and improving supportive care.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXC Health buys U.S. pharmacy provider MedrusionRx for $100 million )〕 MedfusionRx provides voice messaging services to people in all 50 US states as well as other clinical services to over 9000 patients. The messages have to do with medical treatment assistance including the delivery and refill reminders of medication and patient monitoring for people with chronic diseases. It was founded in 2003 in Birmingham, Alabama. Medfusion manages $270 million in drug spending.〔 In 2012, SXC agreed to buy rival Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. in a roughly $4.14 billion cash-and-stock deal. Shortly thereafter, SXC Health Solutions Corp. renamed the company, Catamaran Corp.〔http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120703/NEWS03/120709952/sxc-to-rebrand-as-catamaran-corp〕 In 2015, Health insurer UnitedHealth Group agreed to buy pharmacy benefit manager Catamaran Corp in a deal worth about $12.8 billion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catamaran Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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