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 ($CVS) and Cigna
FTC: Pharmacy managers inflated drug prices by $7.3 billion
WASHINGTON >> The nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain medicines, including for heart disease, cancer and HIV, at their affiliated pharmacies,
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,
CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth inflated cancer and HIV drug prices, FTC says
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Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost for dozens of specialty generic drugs, bringing in more than $7.
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