Mark Cuban laid into pharmacy benefit managers at the White House today. Three PBMs, middlemen owned by giant healthcare firms like CVS and UnitedHealth, dominate how drugs are priced. And they’re price gouging essential drugs at the expense of patients in need. Mark Cuban

The owner of one of the 3 largest pharmacy drug middlemen on Tuesday filed suit to quash an attempt by the FTC to investigate industry practices after it issued a scathing report saying PBMs inflate drug prices and thus make patients sicker. Marty Schladen ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/18/hea…

Forget about the cost of the lawsuit. Between the CEO denying to Rep. James Comer that he lied under oath at the Oversight Committee hearing and the discovery in a lawsuit, there is clearly desperation in the air with the #PBMs.

#Breaking In a new lawsuit, the FTC said CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx profit at the expense of patients forced to pay more for insulin. trib.al/KM3oRhU

BREAKING: FTC formally sues PBMs over insulin prices and warns manufacturers bit.ly/3BfThxq

As described in the complaint, one PBM Vice President acknowledged that this strategy allowed the Big Three to continue to “drink down the tasty … rebates” on high list price, highly rebated insulins. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

1. Today FTC filed an administrative complaint against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs): Caremark Rx, Express Scripts, and OptumRx. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

>30,000 Americans filed complaints via FTC when FTC opened an inquiry >2 yrs ago incl the 3 prescription drug insurance companies that control nearly 80% of all US prescriptions. FTC lawsuit ⬇️: "collected billions in rebates & associated fees &, by 2019, 1 of every 4 patients

This is important ! FTC sues PBMs over insulin prices and warns manufacturers fiercehealthcare.com/payers/ftc-for…

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Why is the FTC is suing over inflated insulin prices? Because drugmaker discounts on insulin have gone to other interests besides the sick patients who have overpaid in order to generate those discounts in the first place. That’s money from sick people. 46brooklyn.com/news/111121-mo…

I'm a little busy putting on protests at PBM headquarters, finding cosponsors for HR 9096, making statements at committee hearings, organizing pharmacists to target bottlenecks holding up state legislation, keeping my store afloat, raising a one year old little girl, hosting an

I'll save you the read: Not retail pharmacy. All we have gotten from APhA is more work (MTM! Immunizations! Yay!) for not a dime increase in pay. If APhA is so important and represents retail, why does NOBODY in retail respect them? Why when we were screaming about the

Was fortunate to pull off a late interview with LiveNOW from FOX last night on the FTC lawsuit against PBMs over artificially inflated insulin prices without four screaming kids blowing up the spot. livenowfox.com/video/1520042

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