Express Scripts, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group, has filed a federal lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a July 2024 report claiming that the report is “false and defamat ...

Catch up quick: In July, the Federal Trade Commission released a critical report about the PBM industry, alleging it is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The "Big 3" PBMs also separately generated an estimated $1.4 billion of income from spread pricing, FTC finds. Jeff Lagasse, Editor Healthcare lease accounting insights: How two organizations got ...

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 ...