Big Three PBMs Cover Opill With $0 Cost Sharing for Most Commercial Plans
The Big Three PBMs — UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, CVS Health Corp.’s Caremark, and The Cigna Group’s Express Scripts — have opted to cover Perrigo Co.’s over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill (norgestrel), at no cost to members in most non-grandfathered commercial plans, according to one expert. That suggests they are taking proactive steps to comply with potential rulemaking that could require most health plans to cover Opill and other types of over-the-counter birth control without cost sharing.
“There has been pretty broad, in the industry, adoption of Opill to the ACA preventive list,” Cody Midlam, Pharm.D., tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT. Midlam is a director at the benefits consulting firm WTW. “If a drug is on that list, that is generally available at $0 cost share at the point of sale for members.”