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 ...
Medicare Advantage plans required prior authorizations about 125 times more often than regular Medicare in 2023, demonstrating the barriers MA patients face in accessing care. An analysis ...
FTC Chair Lina Khan has the big three pharmacy benefit managers in sight—UnitedHealth's OptumRx, Cigna's Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx. © 2024 Fortune Media ...
Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization.” Prior authorization is designed to prevent a physician from ...
UnitedHealthcare will ease prior authorization requirements for its Medicare Advantage plans, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said Thursday. In his first public remarks since the murder of ...
Lawmakers in the Senate's Health and Provider Services Committee heard about a proposed bill Wednesday, Jan. 22 – Senate Bill 480 – that would put restrictions on when insurance companies could ...
Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, warns that prior authorization barriers are delaying critical cancer treatments and urges a regulatory fix for Stark Law restrictions on mailing oral oncolytics.
The report accuses CVS’ Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx of jacking up the price of lifesaving drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent. The so-called “Big ...
Prior Labs cofounders (from left): Sauraj Gambhir, Frank Hutter, and Noah Hollman. The trio have secured 9 million euros in funding to build out their breakthrough AI models for dealing with data ...
CVS' diverse operations create the opportunity to view a patient more holistically by managing both medical and pharmacy benefits, which could lead to revenue and cost synergies for the ...
However, it is not the first alliance between the two companies. COVID accelerated coalitions In 2008, CVS Caremark, a prescription benefit management company, signed on to use Microsoft's ...
The FedRAMP program is looking to narrow the scope of what cloud service providers need for authorization, according to a policy draft published Wednesday on GitHub. The document from the General ...