The complaint claims OptumRx's 2024 formulary, which is a list of medications covered by insurance, only listed coverage of two newer inhaler brands, whose manufacturer had paid OptumRx ...

You can see the complete list of today ... Express Scripts, and OptumRx jointly control nearly 80% of all U.S. prescriptions, having a significant influence over drug pricing and availability.

Under his insurance plan through OptumRx, the medication cost between $35 and $66 during the deductible phase. But in the fall of 2023, OptumRx unexpectedly removed it from its list of covered ...

However, in late 2023, OptumRx abruptly removed his prescribed medication, Advair Diskus, from its covered drug list—without notifying patients, a potential violation of Wisconsin law. As a result, ...

Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein announced that the city has filed a lawsuit against several drug companies and pharmacy ... Express Scripts Pharmacy, Optum Rx, among others.

For example, members on average pay less than $25, below list prices and the ... misunderstanding of how drug pricing works.” “For many years, Optum Rx has aggressively and successfully ...

Criticism of UnitedHealth’s business practices has also hit its pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx. The company is one ... do business in a bid to lower drug prices. And earlier this week ...

In late December, President-elect Donald Trump put pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, on notice. Denouncing the $557 billion industry as “horrible middlemen,” responsible for—and “rich as ...

Columbus joined a slough of cities, states and counties in suing drug companies and pharmacy ... Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx, all included in the lawsuit Columbus joined, administer ...

Bloomfield-based Cigna announced this week a new initiative that aims to reduce out-of-pocket prescription-drug costs and make those costs more transparent.

UnitedHealth’s OptumRx told Fortune that this didn ... These reforms would have included delinking of PBM revenue from list prices of drugs in Medicare, curbing rebate incentives that can ...