UNH and EPN join forces to enhance pharmacy reimbursement, ensuring fair payments and better stability for independent pharmacies.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The PBM plans to stop requiring coverage authorization for about 80 drugs, including Vertex’s cystic fibrosis medicines and ...

UnitedHealth (UNH) stock in focus as the company's Optum Rx unit introduces cost-based payment models to address pharmacy challenges. Read more here.

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