All community and independent pharmacies in the Optum Rx network are transitioning to cost-based contracts.

All community and independent pharmacies in the Optum Rx network have transitioned to a cost-based reimbursement model aimed at improving payment transparency and stability. The shift follows new ...

Earlier this year, Optum Rx announced it would shift to a cost-based model, which would boost reimbursements for brand-name drugs at community pharmacies. | Earlier this year, Optum Rx announced that ...

OptumRx, CVS Pharmacy form strategic partnership: 4 takeaways Chicago-based OptumRx will partner with Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Pharmacy to develop a new pharmacy network solution. Through the ...

Rising prices set by pharmaceutical companies are causing pharmacies across the United States to pay more for many drugs, impacting their ability to maintain high-quality care for patients. Effective ...

UnitedHealth and its pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx are being sued by an independent pharmacy for allegedly strong-arming pharmacies into agreeing to “unconscionable” performance-based fees, ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthTrust, a leading group purchasing organization and health care performance improvement company, has selected OptumRx as its exclusive pharmacy care services ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OptumRx has received the 2019 Excellence Award for Opioid Management Strategies from the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute. The award recognizes OptumRx for ...

The pharmacy delivery business Optum Rx opened its largest fulfillment center in the country in Mesa on Tuesday. The center located in west Mesa will add 300 jobs to its more than 5,500 workforce in ...

West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey’s office has filed a lawsuit blaming a pharmacy benefit manager for its role in ...

UnitedHealth said on Friday that audits by outside consulting firms of its health services and pharmacy benefit units would ...

PBMs are pivoting reimbursement models to protect pharmacies from what they say is an unsustainable status quo.