STAT+: ‘Where’s my prescription?’: California wants to revoke an OptumRx pharmacy license for prescribing lapses
The California Board of Pharmacy is seeking to revoke or suspend a pharmacy license held by OptumRx, which is one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S., for a series of prescribing failures that allegedly jeopardized patient health.
The infractions, which occurred between 2016 and 2020, involved failures to refill prescriptions promptly; substituting a medicine without written consent; telling a patient his health insurer denied a refill due to cost; and dispensing a generic version of a drug with a costly co-pay when the customer had no co-pay for the brand version, according to the complaint, which was filed in August but shared online recently by the agency.
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