22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit
The parents of a 22-year-old Wisconsin man who died after an asthma attack have filed a lawsuit against Walgreens and ...
‘Chose rent over his medicine’: Parents of 22-year-old who died from asthma attack sue pharmacy over inhaler price jump
The parents of a young Wisconsin man have sued Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx over their son’s death from an ...
Man’s asthma inhaler cost went from $66 to $539, then he died, Wisconsin lawsuit says
The family of a Wisconsin man is suing after they say he died from an asthma attack when his medication price rose from $66 ...
The FTC Finds United Health’s OptumRX Is Engaged In Widespread Price Gouging
The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) found prescription benefits managers like UnitedHealth's OptumRX have gained $7.3B from ...
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FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging
FTC: ‘Big 3’ Pharmacy Benefit Managers Engaged in Price Gouging, PBMs, UnitedHealth OptumRx, CVS Caremark Rx, Express Scripts ...
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Top three insurers reaped $7.3 billion through their drug middlemen's markups, FTC says
The top pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — CVS Health’s Caremark Rx, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx — generated roughly $7.3 billion through price hikes over ...
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PBMs made billions marking up specialty drugs by more than 1,000 percent: FTC
The report specifically looked at the business practices of the Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx, which are in turn owned by CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group, respectively.
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Troubling FTC probe reveals PBMs’ price-gouging tactics
Shocking revelations from a Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, investigation have exposed how three major prescription benefit managers, or PBMs, ...
UnitedHealth CEO Highlights Hospitals, Doctors, Pharma's Role In Soaring Health Care Costs
UnitedHealth Group reported mixed financial results for Q4, with a rise in medical care ratio and CEO's tribute to the late ...
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
FTC Chair Lina Khan has the big three pharmacy benefit managers in sight—UnitedHealth's OptumRx, Cigna's Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx.
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It operates through the following segments: UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx. The UnitedHealthcare segment utilizes Optum's capabilities to help coordinate patient care ...