Pharmacy
HHS is offering the tests to help prevent widespread infections this fall and winter.
Resistant infections result in more than 35,000 deaths each year and cost the health system billions.
Insurance companies and PBMs set the price of drugs paid at the pharmacy counter, says CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen.
Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum and their GPOs created a rebate system that boosted PBM profits, FTC alleges.
The drug company faces civil monetary penalties and the termination of its Pharmaceutical Pricing Agreement.
Express Scripts is demanding the FTC retract its report, claiming it's filled with "false and misleading claims."
Walgreens allegedly billed the government for prescriptions never dispensed, says DOJ.
The analysis also finds a high prevalence of vertical integration of PBMs with health insurance companies.
The biosimilar will be available at $0 out-of-pocket for most patients through Quallent's copay assistance program.
The deadline to respond is September 11, says chairman for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.