UnitedHealth Units Beat Claims of Prescription Drug Overcharging

UnitedHealth Group Inc. and OptumRx defeated a health plan participant’s lawsuit claiming she was overcharged for prescription drugs, when a Minnesota federal judge determined that her lawsuit was based on a draft plan summary that contained a “scrivener’s error.”

Samantha Sohmer, who says she was overcharged by $130.53 for prescription drugs in 2016, failed to show that the draft summary plan description allegedly entitling her to a lower price was the operative document governing her health plan, Judge Joan N. Ericksen of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota said in an opinion unsealed Thursday. And even if ...