In a recent antitrust arbitration ruling, Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by 19 Blue Cross and ...
Eagan-based Prime Therapeutics has been ordered to pay $10 million in damages after federal arbitration found it engaged in ...
The 2003 survey profiles in detail 7 PBMs: AdvancePCS; Caremark Prescription Service; Eckerd Health Services (EHS); Express Scripts, Inc (ESI); Medco Health Solutions; Systemed; and Walgreens ...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the leading provider of health care to people living with HIV/AIDS around the world, won a monumental legal battle in an American Arbitration Association arbitration ...
"Prime demonstrated how actual patients saved on prescription drugs as a result of the agreement [between Prime and Express Scripts, Inc. ('ESI')]. With this ruling, AHF is seeking to rewind the clock ...
and Cigna's Express Scripts Inc (ESI), a trio that collectively administers around 80% of prescriptions in the US market. It claims that the PBMs have been rigging pharma supply chain competition ...
Express Scripts did not immediately respond to a request ... “Through this case and with this ruling, the Prime-ESI ‘collaboration’ has been clearly exposed as per-se-illegal horizontal ...
The arbitration found that Prime collaborated with a competitor, Express Scripts, in this price fixing ... "Through this case and with this ruling, the Prime-ESI ‘collaboration’ has been ...
On September 20, the FTC filed a lawsuit against the three largest prescription drug benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark, Express Scripts (ESI), and United Health's OptumRx "for engaging in ...
A safety net health care provider has won a $10.3 million interim arbitration judgment against Eagan-based Prime Therapeutics over price-fixing allegations between the local pharmacy benefits manager ...
When it comes to overall service and performance and delivering promised services, employers give PBMs high rankings. However, employers are notably less satisfied with the ability of PBMs to ...