The three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) inflated the price of specialty generic drugs beyond their costs of ...
"While this information is theoretically available to the public, institutional owners' holdings are challenging to identify ...
FTC report reveals significant markups by top PBMs on specialty drugs, driving $7.3 billion in revenue and raising costs for ...
The FTC study examines the practices of PBMs to ensure fair competition and transparency. The FTC found that from 2017 to 2022, the three big PBMs imposed substantial price markups on 51 specialty ...
The FDC released a second highly critical report of PBMs, which may provide further impetus for legislative action to curb ...
From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 ...
CVS Caremark, OptumRx and St. Louis-based Express Scripts — are part of huge health conglomerates that also own insurers, ...
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) owned by UnitedHealth ($UNH), CVS Health ...
WASHINGTON >> The nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain ...
The markups helped the PBMs reap $7.3 billion from 2017 to 2022, the FTC found. The PBMs—owned by insurers Cigna, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group—are supposed to help keep drug costs low for ...