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Pharmacy care services for health plans

We help health plans navigate their toughest challenges.

Optum Rx is a partner focused on your success

We provide the expertise and foresight you need to grow your business. Our innovation delivers better health outcomes for your members.

Innovating for the future

We help you stay ahead of your competition with solutions like PreCheck MyScript® and our Opioid Risk Management program.

Providing flexible options

Optum Rx helps our health plan partners customize networks, plan designs and formulary options.

Simplifying your experience

We redefine quality at its core with our expertise and claims processing technology.

Helping health plans win

Our Optum Rx client service team members are committed to your growth.

Meet the team

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As President, Kimberly is leading the regulated markets transformation from a transactional PBM model to a member centered service model focused on improving the health of the population, total cost of care and member experience.

Kimberly has two decades of experience in healthcare with over 22 years in PBM leadership roles. She has worked in a variety of areas and has broad experience in building teams, driving employee engagement, developing and executing strategies focused on improving both client experience and performance, integrating mergers and acquisitions, and leading technology and operations teams.

Kimberly holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University, Bachelor of Arts degree from Stetson University.

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Rob Hollis is currently the Vice President of Health Plan Sales at Optum Rx leading both the direct sales and reseller teams whose efforts support all regional and national health plan partnership opportunities with a core focus on the Blues segment. Under Rob’s leadership, Optum Rx has achieved tremendous growth in the Health Plan market over the last few years, focusing on disrupting the status quo and reinventing how PBMs and Health Plans partner together.

A seasoned PBM executive with over 20 years’ experience in the industry, Rob has successfully led various divisions in sales, client management, corporate strategy, pricing and underwriting. Rob’s experience dates back to Medco Health Solutions, where he spent 14 years growing and shaping the business domestically, as well as internationally through the creation of the Medco International Division.

Prior to joining Optum Rx six years ago, Rob was a Vice President/Senior Principal of Consulting for IMS Health, where he founded and established their Managed Markets Consulting Division. Rob also has experience working in Pharma, where his career began at Johnson & Johnson. Rob earned both a BA and MBA degree from Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where he continues to reside with his wife and two children. An avid traveler and sports enthusiast, Rob can be found exploring the world or catching a game in his spare time.

 

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Dr. Danielle Nichols is responsible for health plan business development across the western half of the United States. She has more than 15 years of business development and account management leadership expertise in managed care and specialty pharmacy.

During her tenure with Optum Rx®, Dr. Nichols has focused primarily on supporting health plan clients and prospects as a clinical consultant and sales leader for OptumRx specialty pharmacy. Prior to joining Optum Rx in 2015, she served as senior director of account management at Catamaran and clinical manager for Catalyst Rx.

Nichols earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, an MBA from Bellevue University and Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

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Scott Furletti is responsible for health plan business development across the eastern half of the United States. He has over 20 years of business development and account management leadership expertise in managed care.

Prior to joining Optum Rx® in 2016, Furletti worked with Agadia Systems, increasing revenues through business and product development, as well as renewals.
Before that, he held vice president roles at Access Medicare and Radiology Benefit Manager and served in key leadership roles with HealthFirst and GHI. Furletti also spent four years in account management for Medco where he provided high-quality service to employer and payer groups.

He holds an MBA with a concentration in health care management as well as a Professional Academy of Health Care Management designation.

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We take an integrated approach to controlling specialty costs by managing across both benefits and creating a seamless patient experience.

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We prioritize patient care through proactive insights that empower informed decisions and control costs — without compromising excellence.

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