FTC accuses CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth of abusing middleman role, shares down
Cigna (NYSE:CI) Group, and UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) were down around 1% after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused their pharmacy benefit manager units of imposing significant price ...
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US FTC finds major pharmacy benefit managers inflated drug prices for $7.3 billion gain
The nation's three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain medicines, including ...
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 billion in revenue.
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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: Pharmacy benefit managers inflated drug prices by $7.3B
WASHINGTON >> The nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain ...
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FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system
The latest report accuses the PBMs — CVS Caremark, Optum Rx ... in revenue by dispensing medicines to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease, and other serious illnesses at prices that exceeded ...
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" ...
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FTC Slams UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH), CVS and Cigna PBMs for Inflating Prices by $7.3B
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) owned by UnitedHealth ($UNH), CVS Health ...
Harlow mum had heart attack after giving birth to baby boy
A new Essex mum says giving birth caused her heart to fail and left her needing a new one - just three months after having ...
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Editor’s Style Resolution: Remember The Indie Sleaze Girl in My Heart
In the mid-to-late 2000s, this was my routine. I’d get a cheap pair of tights from the back aisle of a CVS; they came in a little plastic ball with a pale pink top and cost $1.99. I’d get out ...