The parents of Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, are suing Walgreens and OptumRx, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, over the Wisconsin man's death in 2024.

The Schmidtknechts allege that pharmacy benefits management company OptumRX violated Wisconsin law by raising the cost of the medication without a valid medical reason and failing to provide 30 ...

Cole Schmidtknecht expected to pay $66.86 for a three-month supply of his preventative asthma inhalers in January 2024 when he went to his Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin. The pharmacy ...

PBM reform represents a tremendous opportunity. It might be one of the only significant, consequential areas of true ...

The couple made headlines across America this week after they went public with a lawsuit against Walgreens and pharmacy benefits management company OptumRx, a subsidiary of United Health Group.

With a market cap of $491.4 billion, UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH) Incorporated is a leading diversified health care ...

The three companies respectively own the top three PBMs OptumRx, CVS Caremark, and Express Scripts. The lawsuit could be filed within weeks – potentially before the end of the month – and ...

and UnitedHealth's OptumRx. It concludes that the PBMs generated $7.3 billion by marking up drugs in these categories over their estimated acquisition costs between 2017 and 2022, in some cases by ...

Payouts to shareholders of large publicly traded health companies more than tripled over the past two decades, new research shows ...

Express Scripts Inc. and OptumRx Inc. argued that Boston was on notice since September 2018, six years before it filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. That ...

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