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Pharmacy Support for Hospitals and Health Systems

Get trusted pharmacy service support for your business, providers and patients.

Helping your business achieve your goals

Our Specialty and Infusion pharmacy services can help your hospital or health system achieve quality care that improves outcomes.

Key benefits

Affordable healthcare

Seamless care that drives affordability through integrating pharmacy services while preventing future medical expenses. Financial assistance options that help remove barriers to care.

Clinician well-being

Providing innovative digital tools, EMR interoperability, communication preferences, prior authorization support that help ease the burden of care from providers and their teams.

Satisfied patients

Advancing whole-person health by proactively engaging patients in their care by leveraging Optum’s expertise to deliver improved experiences, better health outcomes and a lower total cost of care.

High-quality outcomes

Connecting care organizations and patients with advanced tools and clinical resources to increase efficiency, improve adherence and achieve better health outcomes.

340B pharmacy support

As an approved 340B pharmacy, we can help your resources reach more eligible patients and provide more comprehensive services. Optum pharmacy services and competitive pricing can help you make the most of the federal 340B Drug Discount Program — expanding your resources so you can best serve your patients.

503A oncology support

Optum Infusion Pharmacy provides patient specific, buy-and-bill IV oncology admixed chemotherapy and immunotherapy medications. Partnering with Optum Infusion Pharmacy allows your hospitals or health system to curb capital expenditures for USP797 and USP 800 maintenance, renovations and new budgetary demands due to declining margins.

Explore our hospital services

We provide infusion services in all 50 states, either in the comfort of the patient's home or at a conveniently located infusion suite.

View infusion pharmacy locations.

Providers can visit our infusion pharmacy for providers page to learn more.

Our continuing education (CE) presentations cover the latest in treatment and specialty medication and infusion therapies options while providing 1 hour of CE credit for participation. Your Optum account manager will host the interactive experience at a location near you or virtually.

Each presentation includes:

  • A live video conference call with an Optum Specialty Pharmacy pharmacist
  • Specialty medication information including dosage, side effects, drug interactions and other important data

Check the schedule to find upcoming presentations or contact your Optum Specialty Pharmacy account manager to learn more.

See the specialty schedule

With more than 100 years of clinical experience, our appeals team’s efforts have helped overturn eight of out 10 coverage denials and have helped more than 2,500 patients, whose coverage was previously denied, get the treatments they need.1

Learn about pharmacy appeals

Quickly prescribe the medication and treatments your patient needs with online enrollment forms, electronic prior authorization and online prescription submissions.

Specialty enrollment forms

Infusion enrollment forms

E-prescribe

CoverMyMeds

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  1. 2020 Optum Specialty Pharmacy internal analysis