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.
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" ...
Columbus joins national fight accusing drug manufacturers of inflating insulin prices
According to the American Diabetes Association, approximately 8.4 million people in the United States need insulin to survive ...
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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 ...
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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 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 ...
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.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The accused killer of Brian Thompson cited the industry’s failures as his motive for assassinating the UnitedHealth executive ...
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 ...
Trump has promised to ‘knock out’ pharmacy benefit managers. How the drug middlemen became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate
The industry says it keeps down the cost of prescription drugs, but critics say it's profiting at the expense of patients.
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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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Report Reveals Billions Made from Generic Drug Price Hikes
A recent Federal Trade Commission report highlights a concerning trend in the pharmaceutical industry, where pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are accused of significantly inflating the cost of ...