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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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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 ...
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Will PBM reform save pharmacies from closing?
Mattingly is an associate professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah ...
Pharma digs in on changes it wants from Trump administration
The pharmaceutical industry, grappling with new government limits on drug prices, is focusing its requests for ...
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 ...
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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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, ...
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Sen. Warren brings bipartisan team back for more action against PBMs
The Massachusetts Democrat is working with a Missouri Republican, and House members from each party, to press the FTC to ...
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Industry Voices—Why the great unraveling of PBMs will accelerate in 2025
The pharmaceutical supply chain is a sector infamous for glacially slow adjustments, lackluster reform, lack of transparency ...
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 ...