High insulin prices spur a federal lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers
The federal government is suing some pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price of insulin soar for patients.
FTC sues pharmacy insurance managers, alleging unfair drug prices
The FTC accuses the largest pharmacy benefit manager companies of unfairly boosting prices on prescription drugs.
Federal Trade Commission sues drug 'gatekeepers' over high insulin prices
The three price benefit managers jointly administer 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S., the FTC said in the lawsuit.
Pharmacy benefit managers respond to FTC's lawsuit over insulin drug prices
CNBC's Eamon Javers joins 'The Exchange' to report the latest on the FTC's lawsuit against drug middlemen for allegedly inflating insulin prices.
Feds sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high insulin costs
The Federal Trade Commission sued on Friday the three largest pharmaceutical intermediaries charged with negotiating drug prices on behalf of insurers, claiming they are illegally maximizing profits by steering patients to high-cost insulin products.
US FTC sues drug 'gatekeepers' over high insulin prices
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued the country's three largest pharmacy benefit managers on Friday, accusing them of steering diabetes patients towards higher priced insulin in order to reap millions of dollars in rebates from pharmaceutical companies.
American Pharmacists Association applauds FTC action on PBMs' alleged inflation of insulin drug prices
Hogue, PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP, FFIP, executive vice president and CEO of APhA, commended the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) action today against alleged practices by large vertically integrated pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) "for engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs,
F.T.C. Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices
The Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that it had taken legal action against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers, accusing the drug middlemen of inflating insulin prices and steering patients toward higher-cost insulin products to increase their profits.
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