One by one with pharmacy benefit managers the compensation for compounded drugs is going away. This time it’s Express Scripts that is sending letters to patients and doctors with a mid September cut off. Millions of patients benefit from compounded drugs. …
Continue ReadingThe long and short of the OptumRX agreement is to allow patients to be able to pick up and fill a prescription in a retail store versus mail order. That in inself tells me that there’s folks who don’t care for mail order services? In addition, Walgreens wi…
Continue ReadingThis has been in the works for a while as United continues to grow their business through the multitude of subsidiar y companies they own/operate or have 51% controlling interest in. Overall this change is costing Express Scripts just under 2000 jobs nationa…
Continue ReadingFirst question out of the barrel might be “how can that be”. It’s really not too difficult to figure out. A short while back United Healthcare bought a pharmacy benefit manager named Catamaran, and actually took on $10 billion in debt to acquire them. This…
Continue ReadingAs if there’s not enough pharmacy benefit management taking place at United, the company owns Optum, RX which was formerly known as prescriptive solutions and in some areas that PBM has put some smaller pharmacy benefit managers out of business. Here’s fro…
Continue ReadingIt just keeps rolling and this woman has been through 7 doctors in the last year. She’s not even complaining at all about the coverage but she is uprooted over and over. This makes it hard to keep a relationship with a doctor. This is what you get when yo…
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