A Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits company alleging their son died because he couldn't afford a sudden $500 jump in the cost of his asthma medication.
As Madison, Wisconsin's WMTV reports, the parents of the late Cole Schmidtknecht are suing Walgreens OptumRX, UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), after it upped the price of his steroid ...
FuturHealth, a leading provider of personalized weight-loss solutions, today announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Solow to ...
Prior to that, Dr. Solow served as Chief Medical Officer at OptumRx, where he was instrumental in refining clinical services, formulary development, and medication therapy management. He is ...
Pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts inflated costs for specialty generic drugs to treat diseases such as cancer and HIV to the tune of $7.3 billion over six years ...
The Federal Trade Commission accused UnitedHealth's OptumRx, CVS Caremark, and Cigna's Express Scripts of pocketing over $7 billion in markups on generic specialty drugs over a 5-year period.
The top pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — CVS Health’s Caremark Rx, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx — generated roughly $7.3 billion through price hikes over ...
Oncology drugs were sometimes marked up more than 1,000%, while HIV and transplant drugs were marked between 100% to 1,000%. In 2021, operating income from these PBMs' affiliated pharmacies from ...
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The report specifically looked at the business practices of the Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx, which are in turn owned by CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group, respectively.