Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves
CVS Caremark, OptumRx and St. Louis-based Express Scripts — are part of huge health conglomerates that also own insurers, ...
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" ...
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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'Raking in billions': Report shows drug middlemen jack up prices by nearly 8,000%
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday published the second part of its investigation into how prescription drug ...
City of Columbus sues drug companies, pharmacy middlemen that artificially raised insulin prices
The City of Columbus filed a lawsuit against several drug companies that artificially raised prices on insulin prices for ...
UnitedHealth's stock dives after first revenue miss in more than four years
The company is at a pivotal point following the killing of Brian Thompson, who headed the UnitedHealthcare unit, and there was a public outcry about insurance denials. That prompted Andrew Witty, the ...
FTC takes fresh swipe at drug middlemen, says some prices marked up over 1,000%
The Federal Trade Commission said in its second interim staff report on prescription-drug middlemen that the "significant markups" in prices above what the drugs cost generated an extra $7.3 billion ...
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FTC releases second report slamming pharmacy benefit managers
Agency commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to publish the report, which makes similar allegations against the ...
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The accused killer of Brian Thompson cited the industry’s failures as his motive for assassinating the UnitedHealth executive ...
Pharma middlemen marked up $7.3B
The Federal Trade Commission accuses CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth of artificially inflating prices on specialty generic drugs ...
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 ...
City of Columbus sues drug companies over insulin prices
Columbus joins the states of Arkansas, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota and Mississippi and other cities and counties ...