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FTC scrutinizes PBM markups

January 15, 2025HME News Staff

WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission has published a report that found pharmacy benefit managers Caremark Rx LLC (CVS), Express Scripts and OptumRx marked up numerous specialty generic drugs by hundreds or thousands of percent. The report, the second produced by the FTC, focused on PBMs influence over specialty generic drugs, including significant price markups by PBMs for cancer, HIV and a variety of other critical drugs. “The FTC staff’s second interim...

Douglas Hoey, Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), Prescription Drugs