The suit comes exactly one year after 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht died from cardiac arrest after suffering a severe asthma ...

Pharmacy benefit managers actually "play a vital role in holding" sometimes-inflated prices down, said UHG CEO Andrew Witty ...

The pressure against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) continues to build. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released ...

Optum saw 4 million less patients in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to the third quarter as the company focuses on a broad strategy centered on integrated, value-based care.

Jan. 16 at 1:45 p.m. ETUnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx unit made a commitment to pass through 100% of rebates negotiated with ...

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report ...

The audit’s findings, released by the Board of Pharmacy in October, indicate that OptumRx may have violated Mississippi law by paying independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...

The FTC has asked the six largest PBMs operating in the US market – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx ... methods to determine pharmacy reimbursement, the use of specialty drug lists ...

Optum and home health provider Amedisys have extended the deadline for their proposed $3.3 billion merger amid a legal challenge from the Department of Justice. Here are 10 things to know: 1. In a Dec ...

But she said while she has a local pharmacy nearby, it often cannot get all her medicines, forcing her to travel to one further away. The fact there are now fewer pharmacies to chose from makes ...

U.S. senators and representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday that aims to prohibit the combined ownership of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmacies and require parent companies of ...