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Healthcare Leaders Support FTC’s Second Report on PBMs, While PBMs Criticize Findings
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report ...
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FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging
FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging, PBMs, UnitedHealth OptumRx, CVS Caremark Rx, Express Scripts ...
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PBMs made more than $7B marking up specialty generics: FTC
The three biggest pharmacy benefit managers made more than $7.3 billion over five years marking up the prices of specialty ...
FTC finds middlemen inflate specialty generic drug prices by billions of dollars
Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in ...
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Major PBMs Inflated Drug Prices, Pocketing $7.3 Billion Along the Way, FTC Says
The three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) inflated the price of specialty generic drugs beyond their costs of ...
FTC report shows $7.3 billion in drug price inflation by leading pharmacy benefit managers
From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 ...
PBMs made billions marking up specialty drugs by more than 1,000 percent: FTC
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FTC criticizing PBMs, an NIH policy on access to medicines, and more
The FDC released a second highly critical report of PBMs, which may provide further impetus for legislative action to curb ...
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FTC: Big 3 PBMs generated $7.3B from specialty generic drug markups
CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx dramatically mark up specialty generic drugs to affiliated pharmacies, the Federal ...
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Jan. 14 - Likely the FTC’s Final Open Commission Meeting
Lina Khan chaired what was likely the final open commission meeting of her time as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and ...
UnitedHealth Charged Cancer Patients 5000%, Bombshell FTC Report Claims
The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands ...
Top three insurers reaped $7.3 billion through their drug middlemen's markups, FTC says
Regulators published their most detailed findings yet on how some of the nation’s largest companies profited from "excess" ...