Walgreens Health Initiatives wins contract with First Medical

DEERFIELD, Ill. Walgreens Health Initiatives announced Friday that it had won a contract to provide its pharmacy benefit management services for First Medical Health Plan.

First Medical is a health maintenance organization with 345,000 members that serves government, union, commercial and Medicare groups in the Miami area and Puerto Rico.

“We selected Walgreens Health Initiatives as our pharmacy benefit manager for a number of reasons, primarily because of its flexibility in tailoring plan designs to specifically fit our needs, all at a reasonable price,” First Medical president Francisco Javier Artau said.

Walgreens Health Initiatives is a pharmacy benefit manager that serves almost 10 million members in the United States, including Puerto Rico.