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The Big Three PBMs’ 2025 Formulary Exclusions: Humira, Stelara, Private Labels, and the Shaky Future for Pharmacy Biosimilars

Drug Channels

For 2025, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and Optum Rx (United Health Group)have again each excluded hundreds of drugs from their standard formularies. In fact, nearly all marketed Humira biosimilars are excluded from the larger PBMs 2025 formularies. What do you think?

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2025 Formulary Exclusions: Humira, Stelara, Private Labels, and the Shaky Future for Pharmacy Biosimilars (rerun)

Drug Channels

Click here to see the original post from January 2025. For 2025, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and Optum Rx (United Health Group)have again each excluded hundreds of drugs from their standard formularies. You can find our updated counting below. What do you think?

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STAT+: Akili abandons prescription business model, to lay off 40% of workers

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Race for approval of first oral GLP-1R drug in obesity intensifies with four in phase III trials: GlobalData

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