A PBM Oligopoly: Three Companies Control 80% Of US Prescriptions – How Can We Fix It?
Forbes After two years of research, the Federal Trade Commission's recent interim report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers has authoritatively...
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States Keep Legal Pressure on PBMs Ahead of Potential FTC Suit
State AGs are forging ahead with price-fixing lawsuits FTC appears poised to file its own lawsuit against PBMs Bloomberg Law States are...
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Drug middlemen say Pharma sets prices. Then why do middlemen have hundreds for the same drug?
Ohio Capital Journal Pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers deny claims that they’re responsible for the inflating cost of...
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Pharmacy middlemen claim to keep prescription prices low. In fact, they’ve cost consumers billions
Los Angeles Times In 2022, an executive of a big pharmacy middleman firm acknowledged the noxious reality of its business model: It was...
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FTC plans to sue top 3 PBMs over insulin prices: WSJ
Yahoo Finance The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking to take legal action against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers...
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Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier — The Danger of UnitedHealthcare for All
The New England Journal of Medicine To download a PDF of this article, click here UnitedHealth Group has recently come under fire. In...
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PBMs pay higher prices to their own pharmacies, FTC says
Modern Healthcare Drug middlemen paid their own mail-order pharmacies as much as 200 times more than the price at rival pharmacies for...
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Health-Care Collusion Task Force Sets Stage for DOJ Enforcement
Justice Department poised to bring civil, criminal cases Enforcers expected to focus on data-sharing, use of AI Bloomberg Law The Justice...
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DOJ Launches Task Force on Healthcare Monopolies: Will It Make A Difference?
The U.S. Department of Justice recently launched a task force on healthcare monopolies. Experts have varying opinions on how it will...
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Mapping the Vertical Integration of Insurers, PBMs, Specialty Pharmacies, and Providers: A May 2024 Update
Drug Channels It's time for Drug Channels’ annual update of vertical integration among insurers, PBMs, specialty pharmacies, and...
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Congress Has A Big Chance To Investigate A Financial Threat To Patients
Forbes Following an enormous cyberattack on a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the Senate Finance Committee has called the company's...
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Long-term care pharmacies forced to borrow to buy resident drugs, close as intermediaries tighten grip on sector
McKnights Senior Living Long-term care resident access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors...
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Are below cost reimbursement practices by Pharmacy Benefit Managers creating opportunity for criminals to enter the legitimate supply chain?
The Partnership for Safe Medicines Whether it’s N95 masks, airbags, or helmets, demand for a product that the legitimate market cannot...
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CVS Health Changes Corporate Name to SVC Wealth
The Pharmacist Activist CVS announced today that it is changing its official corporate name to SVC Wealth. Spokesman Mickey D. Angelo...
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Lina Khan Discusses Healthcare & Antitrust
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan joins Jon Stewart to discuss her work with the “small but...
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Amid increased federal scrutiny, PBMs pivot strategy to further squeeze independent pharmacies
Yahoo! Finance Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry...
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Should the DOJ Break Up UnitedHealth Group?
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly recently launched an antitrust investigation of UnitedHealth Group, which begs the question...
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As Humira biosimilars take over the market, CVS has created a new ploy: the drug ‘rebate credit’
STAT+ News The biggest enticement that large pharmacy benefit managers offer to the employers that hire them is drug rebates — a steady...
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New reports detail UnitedHealth's latest acquisitions under shady pretenses
HEALTH CARE un-covered by Wendell Potter Two newly published investigative reports, by the intrepid reporters at STAT News and The...
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Big Insurance PBMs Will Shut Down Your Local Pharmacy
DC Journal | Inside Sources In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden doubled down on this commitment to decreasing...
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