Cigna's Evernorth Health Services said on Wednesday its actions will enhance transparency about the company's negotiations.
Healthcare stocks have been under the weather for the past few years, underperforming the broader market’s rally despite surges for obesity drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. But the sector is off to a healthy start in 2025.
In the lawsuit, AG Gentner Drummond outlined 200 individual prescription claims that were reimbursed below acquisition cost to 15 Oklahoma pharmacies.
Oklahoma's attorney general has accused CVS's Caremark pharmacy benefit manager unit of under-reimbursing pharmacies for prescription drugs.
Between 2017 and 2022, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS Health’s CVS Caremark marked up their prices by hundreds — and in some cases, thousands — of percent, resulting in $7.3 billion in revenue above cost.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond sued CVS Caremark in an Oklahoma administrative court alleging that the company is under reimbursing pharmacies for prescription drugs.
Pharmacies across Oklahoma say they are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because they say a company, CVS Caremark, is supposed to reimburse them for prescriptions and isn't holding up their end of the bargain.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond sued CVS Caremark Tuesday in an Oklahoma administrative court alleging that the company is under reimbursing pharmacies for prescription drugs.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond sued CVS Caremark Tuesday in an Oklahoma administrative court alleging that the company is under reimbursing pharmacies for prescription drugs. The lawsuit alleges CVS Caremark reimbursed Oklahoma pharmacies below the actual cost to acquire the drugs about 200 times between May and October 2024.
Cigna has deleveraged substantially after acquiring Express Scripts in late 2018 when Cigna's debt rose to over $42 billion, or debt/capital of 51%. Management has made good progress on its deleveraging goal in recent years through debt repayment and profit growth.
CVS's app is designed as a one-stop shop for customers to do everything from manage prescriptions to opening locked display cases in stores.
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