UnitedHealth Group’s UNH Optum Rx recently announced a major step toward modernizing pharmacy payments, a decision that could ...

Optum — which is UnitedHealth Group’s division that controls one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers — is moving to improve access and pricing for prescription drugs by cutting some ...

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

Optum Rx is cutting prior authorizations on 80 drugs and updating payment models to improve reimbursements, benefiting ...

The massive pharmacy benefit manager plans to stop requiring coverage authorizations for roughly 80 drugs used to treat ...

UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, will ease renewal requirements for certain long-term ...

UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s drug-benefits unit is starting to reimburse pharmacies more for dispensing brand-name medicines to ...

Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefit manager under UnitedHealth Group, is set to eliminate prior authorization requirements for ...

The massive PBM is pivoting to a cost-based reimbursement model, which it says will reduce variation in how pharmacies are paid. Pharmacy groups say that depends on the specifics of Optum Rx’s plan.

Optum Rx announced on Wednesday that it will eliminate up to 25% of reauthorizations, initially focusing on 80 drugs. | Optum ...

Optum Rx said it will similarly transition client arrangements such as employer and health plan customers - to ensure transparency and greater alignment to drug costs. It has already started ...

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