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Walgreens Signs Agreement With PBM OptumRX (United Heatlhcare) and Anthem Then Sues Express Scripts
Walgreens Signs Agreement With PBM OptumRX (United Heatlhcare) and Anthem Then Sues Express Scripts

The long and short of the OptumRX agreement is  to allow patients to be able to pick up and fill a prescription in a retail store versus mail order.  That in inself tells me that there’s folks who don’t care for mail order services?  In addition, Walgreens will be able to pick up more data to sell a…

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21Mar2016


United Healthcare Puts Their Quants To Work Again-Designs a Subsidiary to Compete Against Them and Sell Insurance With a New Set of Algorithms Named Harken
United Healthcare Puts Their Quants To Work Again-Designs a Subsidiary to Compete Against Them and Sell Insurance With a New Set of Algorithms Named Harken

You read the title correctly as United adds yet one more subsidiary to their almost 400 subsidiary companies.  This is indeed marketing that will get more insureed inside one of their networks and of course they are competing with the other insurers as well.  The catch here is for the insured to vis…

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13Mar2016


United Healthcare Now Offering Employers Wearable Wellness Devices-UnitedHealthcareMotion–More Data To Mine And Sell With Related Risk Assessment Scoring Processes About You-Excess Scoring
United Healthcare Now Offering Employers Wearable Wellness Devices-UnitedHealthcareMotion–More Data To Mine And Sell With Related Risk Assessment Scoring Processes About You-Excess Scoring

Here we go again, the Big Brother push and of course could all these “motion” scores be combined and queried with medical claims and other information on hand at United?  Sure they could and we now would have an entire new bunch of risk assessment scores to sell about you for profit.  Just remember …

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01Mar2016
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