How UnitedHealth and Rivals Made $7.3 Billion Marking Up Drugs: FTC
The Federal Trade Commission said three top pharmacy suppliers made profits of 7,700 percent on a lifesaving hypertension drug.
Big 3 PBMs reaped $7.3B from generic specialty drug markups: FTC
The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to release additional findings from its yearslong probe into CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts.
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" prescription price hikes of 1,000% or more.
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 the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through
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 revenue from marking up the prices of dozens of specialty generic drugs between 2017 and 2022,
US FTC Finds Major Pharmacy Benefit Managers Inflated Drug Prices for $7.3 Billion Gain
UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts -- marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue in excess of the acquisition costs of the drugs,
FTC says pharmacy benefits managers marked-up generic drug prices for $7.3bn gain
Regulator’s report finds companies ‘hiked costs’ for a range of medicines, including cancer and HIV treatments
FTC says ‘Big 3 PBMs’ marked up generic drugs by thousands of percent
The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which it says focuses on
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UnitedHealth's OptumRx Accused of Excessive Drug Pricing
The Federal Trade Commission accused UnitedHealth's OptumRx, CVS Caremark, and Cigna's Express Scripts of pocketing over $7 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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FTC accuses CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth of abusing middleman role, shares down
FTC said the "Big 3 PBMs" — CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx — imposed markups of hundreds to thousands of percent on critical drugs, including those ...
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
CVS Caremark Rx blasted the findings for cherry picking certain drugs in an effort to push what it called an 'anti-PBM' ...
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Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday released an interim report saying that powerful drug middlemen marked up drugs for ...
Why UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Is Crashing?
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Califf concludes 2nd FDA stint
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is closing the book on his second stint leading the agency that regulates products accounting ...