Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have ...

In January, a new Idaho law will take effect requiring reform of business practices by pharmacy middlemen — in search of tamping down prescription drug costs. The new law targets pharmacy benefit ...

The Federal Trade Commission said pharmacy benefit managers created a "perverse drug rebate system" that artificially ...

The Federal Trade Commission took action Friday against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers, accusing the companies of artificially inflating insulin list prices that resulted in ...

In a lawsuit, the FTC accused Optum Rx, Caremark and Express Scripts of creating "a broken rebate system that inflated ...

The Federal Trade Commission Friday announced it was suing the country's three biggest pharmacy benefit managers, claiming ...

The agency alleges CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx accepted money from drugmakers in ...

One complicating factor is manufacturer rebates, which are discounts on prescription list prices provided by drug manufacturers to pharmacy benefit managers, which in turn may share some or all of ...

The Dean of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan, Professor Adejoke Akinyele, has called on the federal government to eliminate the activities of middlemen in the food ...

However, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff has issued a report that focuses on those income claims made by 70 MLM companies. In the report, the FTC staff found many issues with the income ...

(Courtesy: FTC) Originally designed as a way to ... The first bill, the Protecting Patients from Middlemen Act, would prohibit drug plans and PBMs in Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage from ...