My 19-year-old daughter required a treatment prescribed by her doctor. Even with my professional expertise, her doctor and I ...

"We need true change," Bil Schmidtknecht said. OptumRx is a pharmacy benefit manager, also known as a PBM, which acts as a go-between for UnitedHealth Group with drug companies and pharmacies.

Prescription medication is counted before being placed into a bottle for customer pickup on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (Geoff ...

Josh Hawley, R-Missouri. The bill would rein in PBMs and prohibit the parent company of a PBM from owning a pharmacy (CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx are all PBMs that own pharmacies).

and UnitedHealth's OptumRx. It concludes that the PBMs generated $7.3 billion by marking up drugs in these categories over their estimated acquisition costs between 2017 and 2022, in some cases by ...

and essentially every committee in both chambers with jurisdiction over health care drafted PBM reform legislation last year. The three biggest PBMs are UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx ...

The U.S. House is renewing a push to take on pharmacy benefit managers that play an important role in the cost of prescription drugs.

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx, and their respective affiliated ... The pressure has driven some customers to switch to smaller PBM partners and has spurred the market leaders to ...

In the lawsuit complaint, Cole's parents, Bil and Shanon Schmidtknecht, allege both OptumRx and Walgreens were negligent and bear responsibility for their son's death. Five days before Cole's ...

The Pioneer Institute recently released a study raising concern over the lack of transparency around the role pharmacy ...

The family of Cole Schmidtknecht accuse OptumRx and Walgreens of having a part in their son’s death. As we reported last month, the 22-year-old didn’t have an asthma inhaler when he suffered a ...