On Thursday, the Connecticut-based health insurer Cigna offered to buy Express Scripts in a $52 billion deal that promises about $600 million in what the companies called "retained synergies" primarily from administrative efficiency.
"Unfortunately, whenever you have two large organizations coming together, there likely will be some degree of overlap," said John Boylan, a senior analyst with Edward Jones, via e-mail. "To what extent and where, we don't know."
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