Federal Trade Commission sues largest drug middlemen for
Sep 20, 2024 · CNN — 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...
FTC Sues Prescription Drug Middlemen for Artificially Inflating …
Sep 20, 2024 · The FTC’s administrative complaint alleges that CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s ESI, and United Health Group’s Optum, and their respective GPOs—Zinc Health Services, Ascent Health Services, and Emisar Pharma Services—have abused their economic power by rigging pharmaceutical supply chain competition in their favor, forcing patients ...
Federal Trade Commission accuses three drug middlemen of …
Sep 21, 2024 · The FTC accused the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx, CVS Health's Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts — of "engaging in anticompetitive and unfair...
Cigna Sues Federal Trade Commission Over 'Defamatory' Report
Sep 17, 2024 · Cigna’s Express Scripts unit called the FTC’s July report “unfair, biased, erroneous, and defamatory” in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Missouri. An FTC spokesman said the agency...
Cigna Demands FTC Retraction in Escalating Drug-Price Fight
Sep 17, 2024 · One of the country’s biggest pharmacy-benefit managers, Cigna Group ’s CI -0.87% Express Scripts, sued the Federal Trade Commission, demanding a retraction of a recent report critical of the...
CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna say FTC should take Lina Khan and two ...
Oct 9, 2024 · CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group are demanding that FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan and two other commissioners recuse themselves from a lawsuit accusing the company and other drug middlemen...
Cigna Sues Federal Trade Commission Over ‘Defamatory’ Report
Cigna Group’s Express Scripts sued the US Federal Trade Commission over a recent report that the company said demonizes pharmacy benefit managers and asked the court to order the agency to retract it.
FTC Sues CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth over insulin prices
Sep 20, 2024 · The US Federal Trade Commission sued units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Friday, accusing the drug middlemen of engaging in illegal rebate programs that drove...
FTC to sue PBMs over drug prices including insulin, source says
Jul 10, 2024 · The Federal Trade Commission is planning to sue three large U.S. health companies over their practices as middlemen who negotiate prices for medications such as insulin, as the agency...
Cigna’s PBM Express Scripts sues the FTC, seeking ... - MarketWatch
Sep 17, 2024 · Cigna Group’s pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts on Tuesday sued the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the agency’s July report on the PBM industry was biased and defamatory...