Article: Aetna activates mail-order prescription center.

Byline: Glenn Singer

Jan. 4--Inside a mammoth Pompano Beach building with an area equal to about three football fields, Aetna Inc.'s second general prescription mail-order center has come to life.

With customer service representatives, pharmacists and a state-of-the art, robotic assembly line that officials say is virtually error-free, the operation has some 200 employees onboard, with about 600 to 800 to be added over the next three years.

Creating the center reinforced Aetna's decision to manage the pharmacy benefits business for 15 million medical plan members nationally rather than outsource the job at a higher cost. It also spotlight's the ...

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