OptumRx (UnitedHealth Group)
OptumRx (UnitedHealth Group) — Pharmacy benefit manager — UnitedHealth/Optum · optum.com — OptumRx.
What it sells
OptumRx is UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager for its commercial and government plans. It is NOT the VA’s PBM — VA pharmacy is in-house/CMOP — and its documented direct VA work is small: an Optum Pharmacy entity holds small VA blanket-purchase calls for hazardous chemotherapy compounding for individual VA medical centers. UnitedHealth’s large VA role runs through Optum Serve (see its own page), a different business from OptumRx; the two are not conflated here.
The contract and the money
VA VISN 2 BPA call to Optum Pharmacy 601, LLC for chemotherapy compounding services (36C24224N0317).
- $21,490 current/potential; $108,450 original award (2024) — The full documented scale of OptumRx’s direct VA work in this build’s research — printed at its true size. (GovTribe (FPDS-derived))
On the record
What the government’s own watchdogs and prosecutors have published about this company, newest first. The summaries are ours; the findings are theirs.
- FTC administrative complaint against Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts over insulin rebate schemes (2024-09) — The FTC alleged rebate-driven formulary practices inflated insulin prices; per cited reporting, the OptumRx portion was withdrawn from adjudication for a proposed consent agreement announced June 2026.
- Massachusetts AG: OptumRx to pay $5.8 million over workers’ compensation prescription pricing — State enforcement (not VA): the AG alleged OptumRx allowed excessive drug costs into the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system; the settlement required new compliance procedures.
If this company is in your chain
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If this company is in your veteran’s chain, your documents belong on the record next to ours.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Middlemen data checked 2026-10-25 against the sources cited on this page. If a figure or a fact here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.