Overall sales growth in the U.S. prescription market increased 3.8 percent in 2007 to $287 billion, compared to an increase of more than 8 percent in 2006. Total U.S. dispensed prescription volume grew at a 2.8 percent pace in 2007 compared with 4.6 percent in 2006, according to IMS Health. Mail order prescriptions accounted for 15.6%, or nearly $45 billion of U.S. pharmaceutical sales in 2007, compared to $42.4 billion, or 15.4% in 2006. Employers typically save 10-20 percent off retail drug costs with mail-order. These cost savings are achieved because the primary operators of mail order pharmacies- pharmacy benefit management companies-can purchase drugs in bulk and pass on their savings to employers. Knowledge Source's Mail-Order Pharmacies Market Overview 2008 provides the information you need to gain an understanding of the market and the trends which affect it. Knowledge Source's Mail-Order Pharmacies Market Overview, 160 pages, also identifies nearly 50 of the companies that operate mail-order facilities. | 
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