Consumer News Ftc Report Says Pharmacy Benefit Managers Keep Drug Prices High

FTC says Optum, other prescription benefit managers inflate cancer drug prices 1,000%

Prescription benefit managers have been under growing scrutiny from state and federal regulators who have accused them of creating pharmacy deserts by steering consumers to their own pharmacies and ... Read More

Miyares sues pharmacy benefit managers, drugmakers over soaring insulin prices

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is suing pharmacy benefit managers and drugmakers he says are responsible for increasing the price of diabetes medication up to 1,000%. Read More

Prescription drug middlemen fight FTC oversight at Eighth Circuit

ST. LOUIS (CN) — Express Scripts and other major pharmacy benefit managers asked the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday to declare the Federal Trade Commission’s in-house administrative proceedings ... Read More

Arkansas battles pharmacy giants over drug pricing power

Arkansas is in the midst of a legal showdown with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) over Act 624, a law that would ban PBMs from owning pharmacies in the state. Read More

Letters: Pharmacy benefit managers

Colorado families are confronting some of the highest health care costs in years. A big part of this is prescription costs, and the common thread running through nearly every complaint is the ... Read More

Missouri aims to address medication pricing by reforming pharmacy benefit manager system

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Missouri could join a number of states adding new regulations to pharmacy benefit managers who play a central role in setting patient prescription prices. Dual ... Read More