US FTC Finds Major Pharmacy Benefit Managers Inflated Drug Prices for $7.3 Billion Gain
UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts -- marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue in excess of the acquisition costs of the drugs,
FTC finds middlemen inflate specialty generic drug prices by billions of dollars
Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in revenue from marking up the prices of dozens of specialty generic drugs between 2017 and 2022,
Largest Pharmacy-Benefit Managers Hiked Up Drug Prices, FTC Says
The largest pharmacy-benefit managers hiked the prices of certain drugs dispensed through their own pharmacies, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission released on Tuesday. The markups helped the PBMs reap $7.
PBMs made billions marking up specialty drugs by more than 1,000 percent: FTC
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through vertical integration,
FTC finds PBMs excessively marked up prices on specialty drugs
A new report issued by the Federal Trade Commission has found that prescription benefit manager units owned by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) significantly marked up prices for many specialty generic drugs over a six-year period.
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