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Federal Trade Commission to Expand Use of Law Against Anticompetitive Practices
Action could lead to more legal challenges against alleged unfair practices by businesses The Wall Street Journal The Federal Trade...
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Nov 10, 20223 min read
FTC's Bedoya Says Antitrust Cares Too Much About Efficiency
Law360 Federal Trade Commission member Alvaro M. Bedoya said Thursday that antitrust enforcement has been too concerned with how...
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Sep 24, 20223 min read
CVS deal for Signify seen facing tough antitrust review
Reuters CVS Health Corp's (CVS.N) plan to buy healthcare services company Signify Health for about $8 billion will face a tough U.S....
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Sep 7, 20222 min read
Briefs sealed in UnitedHealth and Change antitrust trial
District Judge Carl Nichols is expected to release a ruling in the case before the end of October. Healthcare Finance Briefs in the case...
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Sep 2, 20222 min read
Judge approves Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67B antitrust settlement
Modern Healthcare A federal judge approved Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ $2.67 billion antitrust settlement on Tuesday. Barring...
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Aug 10, 20222 min read
UnitedHealth and DOJ trial begins: handling sensitive data
UnitedHealth Group Inc. will gain access to “vast amounts of data” on how rival insurers do business if its proposed acquisition of...
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Aug 5, 20222 min read
FTC Caught in Balancing Act With Pharmacy Benefit Manager Probe
PBM group says independent pharmacies are ‘stable’ ‘Need to understand’ what’s happening with drug supply chain, consumer costs Bloomberg...
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Jul 31, 20224 min read
It’s time to expose the secret drug scam at the heart of American health care
Yahoo Finance/Fortune A federal court recently exposed the rot at the heart of America's healthcare system. The case, filed in the U.S....
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Jul 26, 20223 min read
FTC Goes After PBMs, Warns Of Legal Action
Forbes Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously (5-0) to examine rising list prices of insulin, but also to probe...
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Jul 5, 20223 min read
Lawmakers ask GAO to probe pharmacy benefit managers over their role in drug pricing
STAT News Amid intensifying scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers, a group of House Republicans is urging the U.S. Government...
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Jun 19, 20224 min read
FTC Probe Into Rx Middlemen May Spark Industry Shakeup
Law360 Concerns that pharmaceutical middlemen inflate drug prices and harm patients have led the Federal Trade Commission to launch a...
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Jun 9, 20227 min read
Senate Commerce Committee Issues Testimony From David A. Balto Law Offices Antitrust Attorney
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee issued the following testimony by David A. Balto, antitrust attorney at David...
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May 24, 202220 min read
Prospect of lower fees for prescription drugs could be dashed by new maneuver from PBMs
The Columbus Dispatch A few months ago, proposed federal action to reduce fees on prescription drugs used by millions of older Americans...
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Apr 15, 20226 min read
Provider status is very necessary for pharmacists (and I will argue with AMA later on this)
James Lott, CEO of Script Health in Chicago, strongly favors the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, the bill that...
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Apr 4, 20223 min read
Vertically integrated payer-provider groups raise antitrust concerns
Modern Healthcare More commercial insurers are overhauling their business models in response to changes ushered in by the Affordable Care...
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Mar 30, 20229 min read
While UnitedHealth Reports $24B in Profits, Americans Faced 200% Increases in Out-of-Pocket Costs
No insurer has ever made that kind of money in U.S. history. Wendell Potter NOW Just days after a Commonwealth Fund report showed that...
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Jan 21, 20222 min read
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