US FTC Finds Major Pharmacy Benefit Managers Inflated Drug Prices for $7.3 Billion Gain
From 2017 to 2022, the companies -- UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts -- marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue in excess of the acquisition costs of the drugs, the FTC said in its second report on the industry.