The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on September 27, 2024 unexpectedly withdrew from a recently established Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ...

From drug pricing to reforming the drug regulatory process, Trump’s re-election has plenty of implications for the pharma ...

Part 1 of this 3-part series for Global Biosimilars Week focuses on legal barriers to biosimilar access in the US, including the patent system, and discusses ongoing legislative efforts to address ...

By Andy Miller, KFF Health News. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities have drawn scrutiny from Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and ...

This was days after Express Scripts started the legal volleying with a federal lawsuit against the FTC, which accused the agency of making false and misleading claims about the PBM industry in a ...

FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan, with her fellow Democratic Commissioners, recently filed a suit against the leading PBMs in an effort to undermine, or even prohibit, their use of rebates to secure ...

As Cigna and Humana pick back up on the potential for a megamerger, executives will be keeping a close eye on the outcomes of ...

“I’m proud that the FTC launched a bipartisan investigation into these shadowy middlemen, and its preliminary findings prove yet again that it’s time to bust up the PBM monopoly.” Eisai ...

The lawsuit – which has been anticipated since the FTC published a damning report on the PBM sector in July – names CVS Health's Caremark, UnitedHealth Group's Optum, and Cigna's Express ...

Nationally, criticism of PBM practices intensified over the summer with the FTC report. The PCMA pushed back, saying the report "is based on anecdotes and comments from anonymous sources and self ...

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 ...

The PBM profit "is going to line people's pockets ... Bell's Family Pharmacy closed earlier this year. The FTC sued three of the largest PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx, which ...