Brian B. Bullock, president and CEO of The BurchfieldGroup, a pharmacy benefit consulting and auditing firm,believes that Express Scripts, Inc.'s purchase of Medco Health Solutions willbe a 'sea change' for the pharmacy benefit management (PBM)industry.

Bullock leads a team of experts offering recommendations,actionable information, and new market opportunities created bythis change for Fortune 500 corporations, large and smallemployers, Taft-Hartley trust funds, third party administrators,health plans, insurers, benefits/HR executives, and integrateddelivery networks.

“We are helping clients assess how best to take advantage ofthis change, which will work itself out over time,” Bullock said ina statement. “There are very few cases where plan sponsors need tomake immediate decisions that have long term consequences, but newopportunities will present themselves, and there are reasons to seethis as a positive development for plan sponsor pricing.”

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