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UnitedHealth Group's Pharmacy Benefits Management Unit to Buy Catamaran for $12.8 Billion

Optum Rx, UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefits management unit, has agreed to buy Catamaran Corp., another PBM, for about $12.8 billion to create a business both companies say will help . . .

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