The state of Michigan on Thursday sued Express Scripts Inc. and OptumRX Inc., two major pharmacy middlemen, for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis. The pharmacy benefit managers units of the ...
The top three PBMs – UnitedHealth's OptumRx, CVS Health's CVS Caremark, and Cigna's Express Scripts, who handle more than 80% of US prescriptions – were represented at the hearing by senior ...
But today, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana, Prime Therapeutics and MedImpact — manage nearly 95% of all prescriptions ...
The Rio-based network of independent pharmacies blames drug industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.
One of the nation's largest grocery chains is the latest company to agree to settle lawsuits over the U.S. opioid crisis.
Ohioans must recognize the threat that vertically-integrated insurance conglomerates pose to our health and pocketbooks.
Meanwhile, dozens of self-funded payers are already suing the big three PBMs – Express Scripts, OptumRx, and CVS Caremark – over alleged anti-competitive practices that have driven up insulin ...
When John Rotz became a pharmacist in Winchester in 1976, the city was home to eight independently-owned retail drug stores.
Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable with independent pharmacists, pharmacy students and faculty ...
The three companies — CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts — control access to 80% of insured patients in the United States, and they’ve long been accused of using secretive practices to unfairly ...
The three companies — CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts — control access to 80% of insured patients in the United States, and they’ve long been accused of using secretive practices ...