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FTC Releases Controversial Interim Staff Report on PBMs’ Purported Impact on Drug Prices

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At an Open Commission Meeting on August 1, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presented a report prepared by its staff entitled Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Media Reports FTC Poised to Sue PBMs

In the wake of the FTC’s July 9 vote to release an interim staff report on PBMs, several media outlets are reporting that the Commission is poised to sue large PBMs. The timing and nature of the litigation is unspecified,...more

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U.S. House and Senate Committees Move Legislation to Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers

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Both the House and Senate are considering multiple bipartisan bills concerning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), meaning action is likely this year. However, the timeline and path forward remain unclear, since the two bodies...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Supports State Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent unanimous decision clears the way for state regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (“PBMs”). Rutledge v. Pharm. Care Mgmt. Ass’n, 141 S. Ct. 474 (2020). At issue before the High Court was...more

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Toward Uncharted Waters – The CVS-Aetna Merger

On June 4 – 5, 2019, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held an extraordinary and unprecedented evidentiary hearing to decide whether to enter the proposed Final Judgment in U.S. v....more

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