Part 2 of this series for Global Biosimilars Week dives into the complexities of payer and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) ...
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 ...
Blue Shield of Calif. is bypassing traditional pharmacy benefit managers to bring a Humira-referenced biosimilar, Idacio, to ...
Some PBMs not cooperating with the investigation The FTC started its probe into the sector in 2022, asking the top six players in the market – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...
From drug pricing to reforming the drug regulatory process, Trump’s re-election has plenty of implications for the pharma ...
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their ...
The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...
I'm a 65 year old with 52 years of diabetes type 1. On my HMO plan, I was lead to believe they use Express Scripts. My Endocrinologist writes a prescription on Oct 16th 2024, After my much ...
Gail Slater, an adviser to Vance, a former FTC lawyer and an executive at Fox Corp and Roku, is involved in vetting ...
But today, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana, Prime Therapeutics and MedImpact — manage nearly 95% of all prescriptions ...