Insurer-pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) firms control most of the Medicare Part D market, steering patients to their ...
Abby Jones' first stop of the day delivering medication was the home of 90-year-old Sarah Campbell Kier. "Come in!" yelled Kier. Jones didn't have to knock. Kier had the screen door open and was ...
Witty's comments came during the company's first earnings call since the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the company's insurance arm UnitedHealthcare.
A roundup of the most newsworthy healthcare announcements from PR Newswire this week, including the FDA's nicotine reduction ...
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday released an interim report saying that powerful drug middlemen marked up drugs for ...
Reminders of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson were everywhere at this year's J.P. Morgan conference.
The Federal Trade Commission accused UnitedHealth's OptumRx, CVS Caremark, and Cigna's Express Scripts of pocketing over $7 ...
Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.
According to FTC’s latest report, units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly ...
Our narrow economic moat rating for UnitedHealth Group reflects our generally narrow-moat view of the US health insurance and PBM industries that includes an unclear outlook for economic profitability ...
The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands ...
The UnitedHealth Group is overcharging patients for necessary life-saving drugs as a result of price gouging that increases ...