{"id":23336,"date":"2024-09-12T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2024-09-12T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:39:23","slug":"optum-joins-cvs-cigna-in-dropping-humira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23336","title":{"rendered":"Optum joins CVS, Cigna in dropping Humira"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optum Rx will join the other major pharmacy benefit managers and exclude Humira from some formularies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a message to providers, Optum said it will exclude Humira and prefer biosimilar options for new patients beginning in 2025.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/optum-joins-cvs-cigna-in-dropping-humira.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/optum-joins-cvs-cigna-in-dropping-humira.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7859\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Optum Rx will join the other major pharmacy benefit managers and exclude Humira<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21,15],"tags":[428,76,238,1525,65],"class_list":["post-23336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-biosimilars-drugs","tag-fda","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-humira","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23337,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions\/23337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}