Cigna Group shares fell sharply after the health insurer reported fourth-quarter profit that was dragged down by medical costs, a trend that’s concerned investors in the sector for months. Most Read f

Cigna's Evernorth Health Services said on Wednesday its actions will enhance transparency about the company's negotiations.

It’s the latest step from pharmacy benefit managers to respond to relentless criticism from politicians and regulators over prescription drug costs.

After UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death in December, law enforcement records show a burst of police activity at the homes of health executives.

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.

The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent.

They accuse the company of forming agreements with insurers—UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health, Aetna and Cigna are listed as "co-conspirators"—to set out-of-network prices using a common ...

But high medical costs contributed to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company’s stock fell on the news that it had made less than analysts expected.

Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.

(Bloomberg) -- Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost for dozens of specialty generic drugs, bringing in more than $7.3 billion in “excess” revenue over ...

Witty's comments came during the company's first earnings call since the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the company's insurance arm UnitedHealthcare.

UnitedHealth Group on Thursday named Tim Noel, the head of its Medicare business, to the top job at its health insurance business, a month after the unit's former CEO Brian Thompson was killed.