Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have ...
In January, a new Idaho law will take effect requiring reform of business practices by pharmacy middlemen — in search of tamping down prescription drug costs. The new law targets pharmacy benefit ...
The Federal Trade Commission said pharmacy benefit managers created a "perverse drug rebate system" that artificially ...
The Federal Trade Commission took action Friday against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers, accusing the companies of artificially inflating insulin list prices that resulted in ...
In a lawsuit, the FTC accused Optum Rx, Caremark and Express Scripts of creating "a broken rebate system that inflated ...
The Federal Trade Commission Friday announced it was suing the country's three biggest pharmacy benefit managers, claiming ...
The agency alleges CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx accepted money from drugmakers in ...
One complicating factor is manufacturer rebates, which are discounts on prescription list prices provided by drug manufacturers to pharmacy benefit managers, which in turn may share some or all of ...
essentially middlemen in the supply chain, are manipulating the drug pricing process for their own profit. The six largest PBMs control 95% of the prescription drug marketplace and they are ...
The Dean of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan, Professor Adejoke Akinyele, has called on the federal government to eliminate the activities of middlemen in the food ...
Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in the U ...