Express Scripts Canada Announces Date, Details for 2012 Drug Outcomes Webinar 05/02/2012 MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 2, 2012 /CNW/ - Express Scripts Canada, one of the largest providers of health benefits management services in Canada, today announced that it will conduct its annual Drug Outcomes Webinar, on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Each year, Express Scripts Canada, the country's largest adjudicator of private drug claims, offers policy makers, the health-care community and providers of health benefits unique insight into the dynamics underlying current trends in the use of prescription drugs. This year's Web-based conference, which will be held in French at 10 a.m. ET and in English at 1 p.m. ET, will provide insight with respect to what plan sponsors - companies and organizations that provide their employees with health benefits - can expect, including a look at potential solutions for reducing waste in connection with the prescription drug benefit. The Webinars, which are available to customers, selected broker consultant partners, members of the media, and other targeted stakeholder groups, present the findings of the Express Scripts Canada 2011 Drug Trend Report, the most comprehensive industry report of its kind in Canada. Drug Outcomes Webinar Details Interested parties may access the live Webinars by sending an email to request a password to ExpressScriptsCanadaOutcomesConferenceTor@express-scripts.com. The same password can be used to access the archived Webinars at http://www.express-scripts.ca/research/drug-trend-reports. Express Scripts Canada Drug Trend Report 2011 Password-protected versions of the full Express Scripts Canada 2011 Drug Trend Report, in portable document format (PDF) in both English and French, will be posted on May 23, the day of the Webinars, to the Express Scripts Canada Web site at http://www.express-scripts.ca/research/drug-trend-reports. Passwords can be requested by sending an EMAIL to Express Scripts Canada at ExpressScriptsCanadaOutcomesConferenceTor@express-scripts.com. About Express Scripts Canada Express Scripts Canada, a registered business name of both ESI Canada and Express Scripts Canada Services, each an Ontario partnership indirectly owned by Express Scripts, Inc., is one of Canada's leading providers of health benefits management services. From its corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Express Scripts Canada provides a full range of integrated pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services to insurers, third-party administrators, plan sponsors and the public sector, including health-claims adjudication and processing services, Home Delivery Pharmacy Services, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, and medical and drug-data analysis services, to better facilitate the best possible health outcomes at the lowest possible cost. For more information about Express Scripts Canada, visit its Web site at www.express-scripts.ca. About Express Scripts Express Scripts is leading the way toward creating better health and value for patients through Consumerology®, the advanced application of the behavioral sciences to health care. This approach is helping millions of members realize greater health-care outcomes and lowering cost by assisting in influencing their behavior. Headquartered in St. Louis, Express Scripts provides integrated PBM services, including network-pharmacy claims processing, home delivery services, specialty benefit management, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, and medical and drug data analysis services. The Company also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care services. 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