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FTC Report Reveals PBM Practices Impacting Competition and Drug Costs
The FTC study examines the practices of PBMs to ensure fair competition and transparency. The FTC found that from 2017 to 2022, the three big PBMs imposed substantial price markups on 51 specialty ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Another FTC report is highly critical of pharmacy benefit managers
In the debate over the high cost of prescription drugs, pharmacy benefit managers are hotly contested. PBMs, the middlemen in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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FTC says Optum, other prescription benefit managers inflate cancer drug prices 1,000%
Prescription benefit managers have been under growing scrutiny from state and federal regulators who have accused them of creating pharmacy deserts by steering consumers to their own pharmacies and ...
FTC releases new findings in drug price inflation investigation
A new report from the Federal Trade Commission is uncovering what appears to be a major driver of the high cost of ...
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" ...
Lawmaker may file bill to regulate PBMs: They’re managing the dollar
An Alabama lawmaker believes prescription care management should be a legislative priority during the upcoming session.
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FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system
For the second time in less than a year, the FTC has released a highly critical report of pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.