BWC Renegotiating Contract After Being 'Hosed' by PBM

The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation is negotiating a better contract with its pharmacy benefits manager after officials said the PBM was costing the bureau millions in medication costs. Optum Rx's drug pricing was the subject of a news article in the Columbus Dispatch on Friday, in which the former pharmacy program manager for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation said the PBM had overcharged the agency by $5.6 million in 2017. "We thought we had a solid contract that kept us from being taken advantage of (but) discovered we were being hosed,” John Ha...