Cigna Corp., which offers commercial health insurance as well as Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans, plans to acquire pharmacy benefit management company Express Scripps in a transaction valued at about $67 billion, the organizations announced today. A federal appeals court last year blocked a proposed merger of Cigna with health insurer Anthem. 

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