The Federal Trade Commission said three top pharmacy suppliers made profits of 7,700 percent on a lifesaving hypertension drug.
The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent.
The lawsuit claims that three major healthcare companies were pushing up the price of insulin by 1,200 percent.
FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging, PBMs, UnitedHealth OptumRx, CVS Caremark Rx, Express Scripts
Regulators published their most detailed findings yet on how some of the nation’s largest companies profited from "excess" prescription price hikes of 1,000% or more.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, UnitedHealth Group has been charging patients markups on lifesaving drugs. Between 2017 and 2022, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS Health’s CVS Caremark marked up their prices by hundreds — and in some cases,
FTC stated that the 'Big 3' PBM organisations collectively generated over £5.94 billion ($7.3 billion) in revenue from 2017 to 2022.
Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost for dozens of specialty generic drugs, bringing in more than $7.
From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through
Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in revenue from marking up the prices of dozens of specialty generic drugs between 2017 and 2022,
Cigna (NYSE:CI) Group, and UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) were down around 1% after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused their pharmacy benefit manager units of imposing significant price markups on specialty generic drugs,