The three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) inflated the price of specialty generic drugs beyond their costs of ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying ...
Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report ...
Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth (UNH) significantly marked up prices for specialty generic drugs over a six-year period.
CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx dramatically mark up specialty generic drugs to affiliated pharmacies, the Federal ...
FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging, PBMs, UnitedHealth OptumRx, CVS Caremark Rx, Express Scripts ...
The pharmaceutical supply chain is a sector infamous for glacially slow adjustments, lackluster reform, lack of transparency ...
Mattingly is an associate professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah ...
Pharmacy benefit managers actually "play a vital role in holding" sometimes-inflated prices down, said UHG CEO Andrew Witty ...
Margin expansion at Express Scripts, Caremark and Optum Rx increased by $336 million between 2017 and 2021, officials say.
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 ...