The “Big Three” PBMs are kicking their suit up to the 8th Circuit and, in the meantime, are once again asking a Missouri district judge to halt the FTC’s administrative case against them.

In September, the FTC sued Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx over business practices that regulators said were artificially driving up the cost of insulin. The three PBMs, which are owned by ...

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx, and their respective affiliated group purchasing organizations, Zinc Health Services, Ascent Health Services and Emisar Pharma Services, sued the FTC in ...

The FTC sued Cigna-owned Express Scripts, CVS-owned Caremark and UnitedHealth-owned Optum Rx in September, arguing that the drug middlemen prefer more expensive insulin products because they ...

The three largest pharmacy benefit managers are looking to take their legal back-and-forth with the Federal Trade Commission to the 8th Circuit Court, according to a court filing issued late last week ...

The lawsuit comes just after Cigna/Express Scripts filed a legal pre-emptive strike of its own, seeking a retraction of the FTC's report on the sector and accusing the financial regulator of ...

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) caused consternation ... the big three players in the sector – CVS' Caremark, Cigna's Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth's OptumRx.

Express Scripts and Optum Rx). The FTC has been investigating them, and several bills have been introduced targeting PBM practices. However, Abarca views this as an opportunity. “What we’re ...

For those who cannot easily make trips far outside their immediate area, the closure of a pharmacy can increase the ...

My 19-year-old daughter required a treatment prescribed by her doctor. Even with my professional expertise, her doctor and I spent hours fighting to get her medication approved.

Today, the largest PBMs – Caremark Rx, LLC (CVS), Express Scripts ... power in ways that simply harm patients. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently exposed how the big three PBMs have ...

Several companies sued by the FTC have filed similar challenges against that agency. They include Meta Platforms, Walmart, and Cigna's Express Scripts. Trump fired a member of the NLRB and a ...