Optum Rx Offers New Weight Management Program
12 Dezembro 2023 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Optum Rx Weight Engage is designed to provide
plan sponsors with weight management and cardiometabolic disease
solutions that support better health outcomes for consumers
Optum Rx, a pharmacy care services company, has launched Optum
Rx Weight Engage, a comprehensive weight management and wellness
support program. Optum Rx Weight Engage will be available to
consumers of plan sponsors, including employers, beginning Jan. 1,
2024.
Optum Rx Weight Engage is designed to support employers, health
plans and the consumers for whom they provide benefits with a
comprehensive approach to drive better health outcomes and manage
coverages. This includes improving overall affordability, including
that of weight loss medications, which for some classes, drug
manufacturer pricing now exceeds $10,000 per year.
“Optum Rx Weight Engage offers clinically appropriate programs
that support wellness and better health for consumers and solutions
to help clients manage drug spending,” said Dr. Patrick Conway,
CEO, Optum Rx. “We will continue our work to lower drug costs while
also helping our clients manage an important population need and
consumer demand with comprehensive solutions.”
Programming starts with a review of client coverage goals to
tailor programs that combine clinical and provider network
solutions with patient monitoring, motivation and support tools. A
provider-guided program will connect the consumer with an obesity
management specialist to provide a path to clinically appropriate
treatment. A consumer-driven program provides a live and
interactive coaching program, enrolling the patient into wellness
support with a health coach in conjunction with weight loss goal
achievement.
Clients have the flexibility to configure elements that best fit
their and their consumers’ needs. Consumers may access different
components of the program based on their preferences, such as using
a live coach or going through a digital platform.
Key to this program is supporting the consumer with navigation
through their specific benefit coverage, with a specialized
provider network to address clinical questions and needs, and
easy-to-access coaching and lifestyle programs. These elements are
integral to the new obesity management program and will support
future programs to assist clients and consumers with medication and
health care management. Optum, with pharmacy, health, and data and
analytic solutions, is uniquely positioned to provide these
comprehensive solutions to its clients.
Optum Rx Weight Engage underscores the company’s commitment to
actions that create greater value in pharmacy services for
stakeholders across health care, including pharmacy, plan sponsors
and clients, and members and patients. Those actions include:
- Beginning January 2024, Optum Rx will move several preferred
rapid-, short- and long-acting insulins to tier one, or “preferred
status,” on its standard commercial formulary offerings.
- This year, Optum Rx was the first PBM to add Humira biosimilars
to its standard formulary and, on July 1, added the first
interchangeable and high-concentration treatments, including all
list price options.
- In January, Optum Rx launched Price Edge, a consumer tool that
ensures members always get the lowest available prescription drug
price.
- Earlier this year, Optum Rx introduced expanded client
solutions that enable choice and drive transparency and
affordability in pharmacy benefits for employer, union and health
plan customers it serves.
- Optum Rx also recently announced community and independent
pharmacy initiatives to reduce administrative burdens, improve
patient health outcomes, ensure accurate and timely payment to
pharmacies and offer enhanced reimbursement opportunities to
pharmacists that support patient care.
About Optum Rx
Optum Rx, UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) pharmacy care
business, is a pharmacy care business providing people with more
affordable access to prescription medications and therapies. This
strategy has proven to lower costs for clients and members, improve
quality of care and enhance the member experience. Powered by deep
clinical expertise and integrated data and analytics, our
full-spectrum pharmacy services simplify how consumers, clients and
partners navigate the pharmacy space to deliver improved
experiences, better health outcomes and a lower total cost of care.
Optum Rx is part of Optum, a leading information and
technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping
make the health system work better for everyone. For more
information, visit optum.com/optumrx or follow Optum Rx on
LinkedIn.
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