AG Sues Optum Rx Over Opioid Crisis

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman on Tuesday announced the filing of a lawsuit that alleges Optum Rx played a central role in the reckless promotion, dispensing and oversupply of opioids. Optum is a pharmacy benefit manager contracting with the manufacturers of opioids, the pharmacies that dispense them and the third parties that pay for them. The AG's office said Optum controls a pharmacy network that includes about 67,000 retail pharmacies. This filing amends a previous complaint filed in September against Express Scripts and related entities. It alleged that the groups us...