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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 ...
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UnitedHealth's PBM will pass 100% of rebates on to clients: Will more big PBMs follow?
Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth CEO, said the move will remove an excuse other players use to blame Optum Rx for high drug costs.
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CVS successfully converts commercial pharmacy contracts to “cost plus” model
CVS’ efforts to reform how its pharmacies are paid have reached a significant milestone that should stabilize flagging ...
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FTC Finds Top Three PBMs Took In Billions From Inflated Drug Costs
During a roughly five-year span, CVS Health, Cigna, and UnitedHealth benefited the most from increasing prices for generic drugs that treated illnesses such as HIV and cancer. Some of the price hikes ...
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FTC: UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna abuse middleman role
The practice inflated costs for consumers and insurers on key treatments for cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV, organ transplants, and other conditions and procedures, the FTC said. The report ...
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" ...
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
CVS Caremark Rx blasted the findings for cherry picking certain drugs in an effort to push what it called an 'anti-PBM' ...