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TennCare updates pharmacy and IT contracts, including a timing change for OptumRx to avoid January implementation conflicts

Fiscal Review · November 5, 2025
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Summary

TennCare leaders briefed the Fiscal Review Committee on multiple contract amendments and renewals affecting pharmacy benefits, provider-data services and IT modernization. Notable items included a request to shift the OptumRx contract cycle by three months to avoid simultaneous implementation with federal pharmacy updates.

Zane Seals, chief financial officer for TennCare, summarized a series of amendments, renewals and option-year exercises for vendors supporting pharmacy administration, provider enrollment data and TennCare's IT modernization effort.

Seals described a requested modification to OptumRx, TennCare's pharmacy benefit administrator. The agency asked for an extra three months on the final option year (a 15-month period) to shift the contract cycle from…

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