Alexandria dementia care startup Sunday Health opening first brick-and-mortar location
A young local startup offering virtual appointments for patients at risk for dementia and cognitive decline is getting ready ...
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Woman Who Lost Her Hand In Shark Attack Forced To Raise Money For A Prosthetic After Insurance Company Said It’s Not Medically Necessary
Elisabeth Foley, a woman who lost her hand in a brutal shark attack, is no different. Although her medical team recommended the use of a prosthetic, her health insurance company did not deem it ...
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
CVS Caremark Rx blasted the findings for cherry picking certain drugs in an effort to push what it called an 'anti-PBM' ...
FTC report shows $7.3 billion in drug price inflation by leading pharmacy benefit managers
From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 ...
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FTC Slams UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH), CVS and Cigna PBMs for Inflating Prices by $7.3B
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) owned by UnitedHealth ($UNH), CVS Health ...
FTC Says UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna Make Billions Via PBMs On Specialty Drugs
FTC report reveals significant markups by top PBMs on specialty drugs, driving $7.3 billion in revenue and raising costs for ...
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Imagine360 acquires Ardent Health third-party administrator HealthFirst
Self-funded Pennsylvania-based health plan Imagine360 is buying Ardent Health’s third-party administrator (TPA) HealthFirst, ...
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Synders Pharmacy in Oregon closes drive-thru, says it can’t afford staffing
Snyders Pharmacy, located in Oregon’s Ace Hardware, announced it has suspended operation of its drive-thru due to lack of ...
FTC says PBMs inflated prices
The Federal Trade Commission accuses CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth of artificially inflating prices on specialty generic drugs ...
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Largest PBMs hiked up drug prices, FTC says
The markups helped the PBMs reap $7.3 billion from 2017 to 2022, the FTC found. The PBMs—owned by insurers Cigna, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group—are supposed to help keep drug costs low for ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FTC criticizing PBMs, a NIH policy on access to medicines, and more
The FDC released a second highly critical report of PBMs, which may provide further impetus for legislative action to curb ...
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FTC: Pharmacy managers inflated drug prices by $7.3 billion
WASHINGTON >> The nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain ...