The FTC sued UnitedHealth Group’s Optum unit, CVS Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts for allegedly steering diabetes ...
Headquartered in North St. Louis County, Express Scripts, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group, is demanding the FTC retract a ...
Whether Express Scripts wins its unique defamation lawsuit will depend on whether the PBM can prove the FTC made false ...
At issue is a report released by the FTC in July called: “Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug ...
Express Scripts alleges in its suit that the FTC followed “prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics,” and that ...
mail order or retail pharmacies. But Express Scripts, which is owned by the insurance giant Cigna, said Khan’s alleged bias meant “the fix was in” before the report was issued. The lawsuit ...
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the FTC to withdraw the report, and recuse FTC Chair Lina Khan from further action against Express Scripts. “We don’t take this step lightly ...
Express Scripts is suing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), demanding the retraction of a report it claims is false and harmful to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry. Express Scripts is ...
Earlier this year, pharmacists and advocates gathered at Express Scripts' headquarters to protest the company pushing independent pharmacies into unfavorable, "take-it-or-leave-it" contracts, and ...
The major PBM said its lawsuit is necessary to protect against misinformation about the controversial drug middlemen, while the FTC promised to defend its research.