His parents have now filed a lawsuit against both the pharmacy benefits-management company and Walgreens, claiming they are responsible for their son's death. The Schmidtknechts' ...

Caremark is owned by CVS, while OptumRX is owned by UnitedHealth and ... Some of us have to cannibalize our savings and our retirement accounts to keep the doors open. Quite frankly, we’re ...

The company is also feeling the heat over its pharmacy benefit manager, OptumRx, as regulators investigate ... overreaction since Medicare Advantage accounts for just 15% of the company's ...

The firm has done a great job in bringing this balance down over the last three years but we do see some potential risk in the near term. Roughly 40% of debt is set to expire over the next three years ...

In Optum Health (value-based care delivery), it remains the company's key operating profit driver, while supported by its PBM business (Optum Rx ... although it accounts for less than 19% ...

The omission is especially striking given the routine inclusion of people with chronic kidney and liver disease as “special populations” in product labels, when they account for just 2.2% and ...

and Optum Rx. The trio of companies represent nearly 60 percent of the total U.S. PBM business, according to an analysis published last year by the American Medical Association. A fourth player, Prime ...

In September, the FTC accused Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRX of inflating the price ... Medicare and Medicaid account for the bulk of U.S. prescription purchases, and Uncle Sam could ...

The irony is that the nation’s three largest PBMs—CVS Health, Optum Rx, and Express Scripts—are part of giant ... in fields including education and healthcare. The latter, which accounts for 18% of ...