This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their ...
On September 20, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission sued the three largest pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs) – Caremark Rx, Express Scripts (ESI), and Optum Rx – alleging competition and ...
Optum Rx and Express Scripts are facing a new lawsuit, this time from the state of Michigan. The state claims the PBMs colluded with opioid manufacturers, receiving kickbacks in exchange for ...
The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...
Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx and their subsidiaries, which collectively control about 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States). In its complaint ...
Attorneys for UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx, Cigna and CVS Caremark said ... the lawsuit last month against CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx for engaging in alleged ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...