Express Scripts, a unit of Cigna’s Evernorth Health Services subsidiary, asks the court to order the FTC to withdraw its report and to exclude Chair Lina Khan from deliberations involving the ...

Express Scripts sues FTC over drug pricing report By Jody Godoy September 17, 20246:45 AM PDTUpdated September 17, 2024 ...

Cigna Group’s pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts on Tuesday sued the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the agency’s July report on the PBM industry was biased and defamatory ...

As a result, patients who weren’t eligible for the lower discounted price faced higher costs, the FTC alleges. Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx together control about 80% of U.S ...

Express Scripts is suing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a July 2024 report it claims is misleading and harmful to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry. The FTC found that the 6 ...

Express Scripts contends in the complaint that the FTC "followed prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics," and that PBMs lower drug costs for employers and other health plan sponsors.

Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S., filed a lawsuit demanding that a recent FTC report on industry middlemen be vacated.

Express Scripts claims that the FTC’s report, titled “Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies,” is defamatory, biased, and ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) — Express Scripts filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, claiming its report blaming the pharmacy benefit management industry for rising drug costs was ...

Express Scripts Sues FTC, Demands Withdrawal of PBM Report Sep. 17, 2024 7:15 AM ET The Cigna Group (CI) ...

By Ciara Linnane and Eleanor Laise FTC's report said industry middlemen inflate drug costs and squeeze independent pharmacies Cigna Group's pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts on Tuesday sued ...

The FTC released the report July 9, saying the agency had analyzed six pharmacy benefit managers: CVS Caremark, Optum Rx, Humana, MedImpact, Prime Therapeutics and Express Scripts.