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 ...
United Health Lawsuit Named Among FTC's Biggest Wins
The lawsuit claims that three major healthcare companies were pushing up the price of insulin by 1,200 percent.
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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 ...
The FTC Finds United Health’s OptumRX Is Engaged In Widespread Price Gouging
The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) found prescription benefits managers like UnitedHealth's OptumRX have gained $7.3B from ...
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FTC: Pharmacy benefit managers inflated drug prices by $7.3B
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 ...
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FTC Says CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth Abuse Middleman Role
(Bloomberg) -- Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group ... bringing in more than $7.3 billion in “excess” revenue over six years, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report on ...
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Troubling FTC probe reveals PBMs’ price-gouging tactics
Shocking revelations from a Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, investigation have exposed how three major prescription benefit managers, or PBMs, ...
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FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system
The latest report accuses the PBMs — CVS Caremark ... bottom lines at the expense of the American health care system, according to the FTC. Specifically, the companies were able to generate ...