The pressure against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) continues to build. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released ...
The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) found prescription benefits managers like UnitedHealth's OptumRX have gained $7.3B from ...
The lawsuit claims that three major healthcare companies were pushing up the price of insulin by 1,200 percent.
In a recent antitrust arbitration ruling, Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by 19 Blue Cross and ...
Pharmacy benefit managers overcharged for specialty generic medications — in many cases by hundreds and thousands of percent ...
Pharmacy benefit managers are the middlemen in the prescription drug market. The Federal Trade Commission reports the revenue of four PBMs exceeds $1 trillion and they control 86% of the market.
The FTC analyzed data for 51 specialty generic drugs dispensed from 2017-2022 for patients with commercial insurance or Medicare Part D plans managed by CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx.
Specifically, the FTC’s first report found Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx were prioritizing access to high-cost drugs in return for larger discounts from drugmakers and giving their own ...
“In contrast, branded specialty products represent more than 50% of our clients’ total drug spend and are entirely ignored by the FTC.” Express Scripts, meanwhile, declared in a statement th ...
Shocking revelations from a Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, investigation have exposed how three major prescription benefit managers, or PBMs, ...
An arbitrator has determined Prime Therapeutics violated federal and state antitrust laws against the AIDS Healthcare ...
The Federal Trade Commission said three top pharmacy suppliers made profits of 7,700 percent on a lifesaving hypertension ...