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 ...
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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Pharmacy benefit managers levy 'very significant markups' on drug prices for $7.3B payday
Pharmacy benefit managers overcharged for specialty generic medications — in many cases by hundreds and thousands of percent ...
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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, ...
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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AG office sues CVS Caremark
At least one Woodward pharmacist is celebrating an action by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond that could turn the ...
PBMs Under Fire Again, But Despite Bipartisan Pressure Reforms May Be Elusive
As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months ...
Only an act of Congress can stop pharmacy monopolies, Sen. Lankford says
Sen. James Lankford has been trying to pass legislation in response to an industry he believes will leave small towns without ...
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UnitedHealth marked up lifesaving drugs as much as 1,000%: FTC
Between 2017 and 2022, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS Health’s CVS Caremark marked up their ...