Covered drugs are arranged by cost in tiers or levels. Generics are in the lowest tiers and are generally the lowest cost. Coverage and drug lists vary from plan to plan. Plans can change covered ...

Why aren’t all drugs covered by insurance? A formulary is the list of prescription medications covered by a health insurance plan. The list typically has brand-name and generic options. In addition to ...

When the user enters a drug into the text box and clicks search, the system searches the current formulary first (brand and generic names). If a match is found for a particular medication, the salt ...

Wasteful drugs could be driving up your pharmacy benefits spend–here's how to evaluate, identify and establish a high-performance formulary. Working with your PBM to identify drugs where less ...

Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefits manager operated by healthcare behemoth UnitedHealth, is moving eight popular insulin products to preferred status on its standard formulary for commercially insured ...

(Reuters) - Express Scripts Holding Co on Tuesday announced a new drug reimbursement list with lower U.S. prices for brand-name medications, as a way to encourage drugmakers to move away from paying ...

Tricare plans next week to expand its coverage of drugs used to treat premenopausal women with low sexual desire, a Tricare official said via email Thursday. Over the last five years, the Food and ...