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Feb. 2014: Optum purchases a majority stake in Audax Health Solutions, a patient engagement [clarification needed] company. Audax is later rebranded as Rally Health. April 2015: Optum acquires MedExpress, an urgent care and preventative services company. [9] July 2015: Catamaran, a pharmacy benefit manager, joins OptumRx. [3]
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UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational health insurance and services company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.Selling insurance products under UnitedHealthcare, and health care services under the Optum brand, it is the world's eleventh-largest company by revenue and the largest health care company by revenue.
For example, the vertical integration of the three largest PBMs, CVS Caremark, Cigna Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, in which each owns their own insurance companies and pharmacies, allows PBMs to divert patients away from nonaffiliated independent pharmacies and toward their affiliated pharmacies. [31]
The Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is a large multi-specialty clinic system located in Greater Houston with its administrative headquarters in Shadow Creek Ranch, Pearland.The clinic system is a major provider of healthcare for NASA and a center for healthcare research.
Catamaran Corporation (formerly SXC Health Solutions) is the former name of a company that now operates within UnitedHealth Group's OptumRX division (since July 2015). It sells pharmacy benefit management and medical record keeping services to businesses in the United States [3] and to a broad client portfolio, including health plans and employers. [4]
Express Scripts is known to reimburse pharmacies below cost for medications and push patients to only use their mail order service. They then will spread price the medication and charge the plan sponsor a much higher price for the medication than they will reimburse pharmacies for. [74]
Atrius Health is a Massachusetts based healthcare organization with a system of connected care for adult and pediatric patients in eastern and central Massachusetts. [1] Atrius Health's medical practices work together with the home health and hospice services of its VNA Care subsidiary and in collaboration with hospital partners, community ...