Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have ...
Recent developments in health include EU approval of Novo's Wegovy for obesity-related heart conditions, the US FDA's nod for ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have ...
The agency alleges CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx accepted money from drugmakers in ...
The FTC filed a lawsuit on Friday, alleging three largest pharmacy benefit managers “artificially" inflated the cost of ...
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 ...
Instead of tackling the root causes, these price-setting boards could exacerbate the dominance of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned pharmacies at the expense of community pharmacies.