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.
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,
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 Says UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna Make Billions Via PBMs On Specialty Drugs
FTC report reveals significant markups by top PBMs on specialty drugs, driving $7.3 billion in revenue and raising costs for patients and health plan sponsors.
FTC finds PBMs excessively marked up prices on specialty drugs
Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth (UNH) significantly marked up prices for specialty generic drugs over a six-year period.
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
PBMs Generated Billions in Drug Markups, FTC Says
Major pharmacy-benefit managers generated $7.3 billion in markups on specialty drugs from pharmacies they are affiliated with, the FTC said in a new report.
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.
FTC Says CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth Abuse Middleman Role
Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average ...
UnitedHealth Charged Cancer Patients 5000%, Bombshell FTC Report Claims
A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report found that the three largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have taken in large ...
FTC accuses CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth of marking up cancer, HIV drugs
Three major drug middlemenneedlessly marked up generic drugs for cancer, HIV, and multiple sclerosis to generate $7.3 billion ...
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 Launches Inquiry of Single-Family Rental Home 'Mega Investors,' Issues PBM Report
"While this information is theoretically available to the public, institutional owners' holdings are challenging to identify ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FTC criticizing PBMs, an NIH policy on access to medicines, and more
The FDC released a second highly critical report of PBMs, which may provide further impetus for legislative action to curb ...
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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 report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.