When the Cost of His Asthma Inhaler Went Up $500, His Parents Claim He Couldn't Pay. Two Weeks Later He Was Dead at 22
Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn't pay for his daily inhaler due to the “prohibitively expensive” price increase. Two weeks ...
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Chicago’s ‘sanctuary city’ status under investigation by federal committee amid immigration raids
CHICAGO — The City of Chicago is being investigated for its “sanctuary city” status, as immigration officers continue to make arrests in the city and around the U.S. On Monday, Mayor Brandon ...
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Local SEIU members say work conditions at health care facilities have declined
They’re calling out what they say are changes in local care since several facilities were purchased by two companies, Optum and Summit Health. Union members say work conditions have declined. They ...
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Wisconsin family sues over son’s fatal asthma attack, blames rising cost of inhaler
The charges in this lawsuit accuse Optum Rx - the PBM who determined Cole Schmidtknecht’s health plan - of negligence and punitive damages that led to the death of their son. The family’s ...
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OKC sues PBMs and insulin manufacturers over price gouging
The City of Oklahoma City’s lawsuit, spanning several hundred pages, names three PBMs—CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx—and three insulin manufacturers—Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk ...
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Wezlana, First Stelara Biosimilar To Hit the Market, Available Only Through Optum's Nuvaila
Without a lot of fanfare or a news release, Wezlana (ustekinumab-auub), the first Stelara (ustekinumab) biosimilar has hit the market but only through a biosimilar procurement business of Optum, a ...
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4 Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED It's totally understandable if you haven’t opened Apple Maps since its disastrous launch in 2012, which among other things saw people ...
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UnitedHealth marked up lifesaving drugs as much as 1,000%: FTC
UnitedHealth, CVS and Cigna were named in FTC report Companies of all 3 marked up prices by hundreds of percent Report references price-gouging between 2017 and 2022 Between 2017 and 2022, ...
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Optum Rx commits to passing through 100% of drug rebates, Witty says
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 ...
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UnitedHealth’s Revenues Rise, in First Earnings Report Since C.E.O.’s Killing
UnitedHealth Group also owns Optum Rx, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, which employers and government programs hire to oversee their prescription-drug benefits.
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Why Optum's consumer count dropped by 4 million
Optum saw 4 million less consumers 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. "One area that ...