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Optum Infusion Pharmacy for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

We're a strategic partner for pharmaceutical manufacturers with our broad payer access, strong clinical partnerships and high standards for care.

Infusion expertise at every step

  • National reach: Optum Infusion Pharmacy has access to broad payer coverage with over 1,300 payer contracts and more than 250 million covered lives.
  • High quality: We achieve 99.9% distribution accuracy and maintain cleanrooms at a level higher than what is required by all regulatory and accreditation bodies.
  • Empathetic care: Patients receive 24/7 support and ongoing monitoring to ensure adherence. Our appeals team has an 80% success rate in overturning denials. 
  • Clinical excellence: We partner with over 800 award-winning home infusion nurses and 140 home health agencies to provide more than 19,000 nursing visits each month.

Enhanced offerings for a strategic partnership

Maximize brand growth

Optum Pharmacy Instant IQ (Optum PIIQ™) is a real-time, integrated business insights platform. It provides insights you can use to capture value across patients, providers, prescribers and payers.

LDD launch

We’re well-versed in drug and limited-distribution drugs (LLD) launches with access to over 180 specialty and infusion LDDs. We can help you navigate the drug launch journey with a customized partnership to help you succeed.

Data collaboration

Clarity is everything when it comes to understanding and demonstrating health outcomes. Providing clarity can be tricky given the nuances of treating specific member populations with unique concerns and challenges. Optum can help. 

When you need support to answer your clinical questions, our clinical data and evidence team offers:

  • Analytics
  • Pharmacy experts
  • Real-world data collection

Clinical trial support

As pharmaceutical research continues to shift toward a more patient-centered, decentralized model, manufacturers need efficient ways to get their investigational products to patients and study sites. Optum® Infusion Pharmacy can help.

Our Investigational Drug Services streamline product management and distribution to help your clinical trials reach more diverse patients in more diverse communities.

Industry insights

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Infusion Nurse Kayaks Through Hurricane Damage to Give Care

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Infusion nurse kayaks through hurricane damage to administer care

An Optum Infusion Pharmacy nurse’s commitment to ensure her patients received their medication after a hurricane is just one example of the care team’s compassion and commitment.

How One Infusion Nurse's Attention to Detail Saved Patient's Life

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How one infusion nurse's attention to detail saved a patient's life

How an Optum Infusion Pharmacy nurse stops an emergency as a parent keeps fighting for care.

How In-Home Support Reopened Access to Infusion Therapy

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How in-home support reopened access to essential infusion therapy

When a breakdown in care left a patient without essential IV nutrition, learn how Optum Infusion Pharmacy stepped in with a new approach.

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