OptumRx is changing the way it pays pharmacies, reimbursing them more for branded drugs and less for generics, the company ...

Optum Rx — which includes the pharmacy benefit manager of health care conglomerate UnitedHealth Group — is dropping annual ...

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

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 ...

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

The PBM also announced that it will make the pharmacy experience simpler for consumers with chronic conditions by eliminating ...

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

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 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 ...

UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, said on Wednesday it would ease requirements to get insurance ...

The process can take months. “I do believe Optum realizes that things need to change on their end because, across the whole ...