In 2Q, Some PBMs Report Dampened Margins, Customer Pipelines

  • Aug 11, 2022

    Unlike in recent periods, PBMs were not necessarily stars of the show as the country’s largest publicly traded managed care organizations reported their second-quarter 2022 earnings. However, executives across the board still touted PBMs as a key component of their growth and diversification strategies. 

    At UnitedHealth Group, the first major MCO to report its quarterly results, one equities analyst queried the health care giant’s leaders about why OptumRx’s “strong” revenue and membership growth haven’t translated into larger margins.  

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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