A Missouri lawmaker is putting the high price of medication under the microscope. “My biggest issue is these PBMs, and what ...

UnitedHealth, in which slain CEO Brian Thompson was employed, has been allegedly accused of overcharging patients suffering ...

A bill before the Arkansas legislature would prevent pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) or insurance companies from obtaining ...

UnitedHealthcare's legal drug dealing arm is, according to the government, massively marking up the cost of life-saving ...

Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.

Pharmacy benefit managers actually "play a vital role in holding" sometimes-inflated prices down, said UHG CEO Andrew Witty ...

Amid intense criticism, UnitedHealth Group reported a $29 billion increase in 2024 revenues today, up 8% to $400.3 billion.

In an investor call, Andrew Witty promised full transparency and 100% pass-through rebates for prescription drugs by 2028.

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 ...

FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging, PBMs, UnitedHealth OptumRx, CVS Caremark Rx, Express Scripts ...

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 ...

According to the American Diabetes Association, approximately 8.4 million people in the United States need insulin to survive ...