Wellpoint jumps on NextRx sale

Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:17pm IST

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Wellpoint jumped 6.4 percent to $42.90 in premarket trade on Monday after the health insurer agreed to sell its NextRx prescription business to Express Scripts for $4.68 billion.

Shares of Express Scripts were unchanged.

(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak, Editing by Walker Simon)

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