But today, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana, Prime Therapeutics and MedImpact — manage nearly 95% of all prescriptions ...

The review of Minnesota-based Optum’s business practices by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy indicated that the company paid independent pharmacies in Mississippi rates lower than chains and ...

Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the middlemen who manage virtually all prescriptions written in the U.S. Serving as brokers among drugmakers, pharmacies, and health insurers, these health care entities ...

Blue Shield of Calif. is bypassing traditional pharmacy benefit managers to bring a Humira-referenced biosimilar, Idacio, to ...

Drug coupon aggregator GoodRx and pharmacy benefit managers including CVS Caremark and Express Scripts have been hit with at least three class action lawsuits accusing them of working together to ...

The owner of one of the three largest pharmacy middlemen in the United States last month filed suit to quash an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to investigate industry ...

Despite reports this fall that the two payers had reopened merger talks, Cigna plans to use excess cash to buy back its ...

Huge health conglomerates have another reason to worry that their business model might be disrupted. On a visit to Columbus Monday, one of the country’s top antitrust watchdogs said her agency is ...

The Cigna Group reported $739 million in profit for the third quarter, a figure that accounts for a $1 billion after-tax ...

When John Rotz became a pharmacist in Winchester in 1976, the city was home to eight independently-owned retail drug stores.

While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice ...

Ohioans must recognize the threat that vertically-integrated insurance conglomerates pose to our health and pocketbooks.