Specialty and orphan drugs continue to dominate the development pipeline, and a new report from Optum Rx spotlights three products payers should be watching. The pharmacy benefit manager recently ...

Starting next year, the OptumRx Clear Trend Guarantee will offer value-based pricing for drugs. It will integrate costs from various sources such as retail pharmacies, home delivery, specialty drugs, ...

OptumRx, UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager unit, reportedly sent a letter to pharmaceutical companies in December outlining several demands drugmakers must meet if they decide to lower ...

A new program from Optum Rx would offer greater predictability by using a guarantee-based pricing model. Optum Rx announced a new value-based pricing model with an emphasis on predictability and ...

The American Hospital Association urged CMS to review new policy changes from UnitedHealthcare for diagnostic and specialty pharmacy services that the insurer says are needed to lower medical costs.

Pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts inflated costs for specialty generic drugs to treat diseases such as cancer and HIV to the tune of $7.3 billion over six years, ...