Optum Rx — which includes the pharmacy benefit ... The company said earlier this year that it will pass 100% of drug rebates negotiated with manufacturers to its clients. Between the lines ...

Optum Rx, the UnitedHealth pharmacy benefit ... is running television ads featuring a PBM "Middleman" villain who snatches a rebate card away from a bewildered patient. Republicans and Democrats ...

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx unit made a commitment to pass through 100% of rebates negotiated with drugmakers to the client. UnitedHealth Group's stock was down 5% Thursday after it released its ...

Beginning in 2020, all new employer plans with UnitedHealth and its pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary Optum will be required ... of the traditional pricing rebates. Doing so addresses a major ...

Pharmacy benefit managers collect rebates from drug companies in exchange for favorable placement on formularies, the lists of medicines that receive preferred coverage.

CVS Caremark, OptumRx, Express Scripts and other PBMs remained loyal to big-ticket brand-name pharmaceuticals such as Humira, in part because they enjoyed lucrative rebates from drugmakers.

Members of select MA plans using the Optum-backed cards will be eligible in 2024. Uber expects to expand over time to include users covered in Medicaid and commercial health plans. The ...

Meanwhile, PBMs collected billions of dollars in rebates. In a statement, Rahul Rao, the deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, called Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx ...

Pharmacy benefit manager Optum Rx plans to launch Clear Trend Guarantee ... specialty drug and rebate components into one per-member guarantee. "Compared to other models in the market that ...

The FTC accused the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx, CVS Health's ... which alleges that they created a rebate system prioritizing high rebates ...