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Round of subpoenas is the latest attempt to pierce industry Entities allow PBMs to ‘hide the ball,’ consultant says Bloomberg US...

KFF Health News Under the leadership of an aggressive opponent of anti-competitive business practices, the Federal Trade Commission is...

Over the last five years, both PBMs and drug manufacturers have implemented restrictions that put more of the costs for specialty...

Agency issues orders to companies affiliated with CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Prime Therapeutics as it examines the PBMs’ impact...

STAT+ News An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered...

Lexology The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn’t mince words. On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to...

The Cannon Reduced competition, shortages, and unaffordable options are symptoms of middlemen running amok. Administrators—who rarely...

As a health and science reporter, I’ve studied the maze of U.S. health care. But when my son got sick, I still got lost. The Washington...

Axios Wednesday's crackdown by federal regulators on GoodRx highlights increasing efforts by the FTC under activist chair Lina Khan to...

STAT News The Democrats leading the Federal Trade Commission are hoping to expand the agency’s authority to crack down on unfair business...

A primer on prescription drug prices, pharmacy benefit managers, government action, and why physicians need to be heard. Medical...

JAMA Authors: Barak D. Richman, JD, PhD1; Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS2 On June 7, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its...

How discounting led to inflation, shortages, and inequality. Washington Monthly Magazine Author: Phillip Longman For years, the only...

At least 10 organizations with records of healthcare fraud and abuse participated in the direct contracting program last year despite CMS...

NPR In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of...

This two-part article was researched and written in partnership with Cathy DuRei, President of Rumbly Health. Part 1 delved into what a...

NPR Shots: Health News Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage...

Forbes If, as Mitt Romney said, a corporation is a person, then is it akin to murder if an idea takes down a company? What about if it...

Action could lead to more legal challenges against alleged unfair practices by businesses The Wall Street Journal The Federal Trade...

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been...