Optum Rx is shifting its payment models to better meet the needs of pharmacies and consumers, the pharmacy benefit manager announced Thursday. The company said it will shift to a cost-based model, ...

UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx and Walgreens entered a partnership to develop a new pharmacy solution that eases the consumer experience, decrease costs and enhances outcomes. 1. OptumRx manages more ...

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 ...

Optum Rx has hiked the minimum that independent pharmacies are reimbursed for brand name drugs as the major pharmacy benefit manager continues to work to improve its relationship with pharmacies. The ...

Optum Rx has announced that it has expanded its cost-based pharmacy reimbursement model by partnering with three additional Pharmacy Services Administration Organizations, representing more than ...

Optum Rx’s push to reform its reauthorization policy comes amid broad scrutiny of prior authorization processes, where doctors need to get approval from insurers before they provide some services.

Optum Rx has developed AI-driven initiatives to make pharmacy operations faster, safer and more reliable, as well as to give its pharmacists more time to focus on patient care. “We use both AI and ...

Health plan trustees at a Minneapolis-based construction workers union are suing a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group for paying more than $4 million for costly weight-loss drugs, depleting union funds ...