The PBM says the payment model more closely aligns with the costs pharmacies often face due to "manufacturer pricing actions." ...

Optum Rx will align payment models more closely to the costs pharmacies may face due to manufacturing pricing actions effective immediately and with full implementation by January ...

Precision AQ, a leader in life sciences commercialization and a driving force in expanding patient access to life-changing therapies, announces the addition of Julia Wermerskirchen, PharmD, to its AET ...

The PBM is pivoting to a cost-based reimbursement model, which it says will reduce variation in how pharmacies are paid.

President Donald Trump’s firing this week of two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission calls into question how ...

The changes come as pharmacy benefit managers face scrutiny for how they require doctors and patients to seek its approval for certain treatments and drugs.

Optum Rx is shifting its payment models to better meet the needs of pharmacies and consumers, the pharmacy benefit manager ...

Optum Rx will increase reimbursements to pharmacies for brand-name drugs and cut them for generics.  Optum Rx said the new pharmacy payment models are in response to price increases set by brand name ...

Optum Rx's new cost-based program uses an internal algorithm that leverages multiple available industry data sources, such as ...

UnitedHealth started making these changes over the past year, and the company aims to apply them to all prescriptions by 2028 ...