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Pharmacy benefit management

Improving medication affordability

Your employees deserve access to affordable medications. You deserve solutions that make it easy to lower drug spend. We can help deliver both.

Making medications more affordable for your pharmacy benefit plan

Optum Rx partners with you to drive prescription drug affordability for clients and members. Our innovative clinical and prescription cost management solutions address specialty drugs comprehensively and help to manage complex cases – where costs are typically 7-14x higher.

How to make medications more affordable

Weight Engage

Get the most from these pricey new obesity drugs by choosing the right coverage strategy and helping your members build lifelong habits.

Controlling specialty drug costs

The cost and complexity of specialty drugs requires a solution that provides care without compromise. The outcome is a better experience and lower costs.

Smart formulary management

Developing and managing formularies that bring clinical and financial value

Redefining the prior authorization process

Learn how we are revamping the prescribing process.

Orphan drugs market: Can we afford them?

We examine key questions around orphan drugs such as why they're so expensive, how they're being used and what plan sponsors should do next.

Biosimilars to save billions in this decade

Prices for popular brand-name biologics drop up to 60% with generic-equivalent biosimilars.

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PBMs don’t cause high drug costs — they’re part of the solution. Our drug prices beat the “low cost” vendors.

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5 questions: Premium Value formulary

Savitha Vivian, Optum Rx SVP of clinical and formulary services, answers questions about the Premium Value formulary.

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How to manage medication overload

Hear from a leader's perspective on how to manage polypharmacy.

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Making sense of copay cards

Discover how copay cards can disrupt your benefit strategy.

See how our affordability initiatives can meet your needs