Express Scripts, Caremark, Optum Rx plan to appeal effort to block FTC lawsuit

Healthcare DIVE February 24, 2025
Rebecca Pifer

The “Big Three” PBMs are kicking their suit up to the 8th Circuit, and in the meantime once again asking a Missouri district judge to halt the FTC’s administrative case against them.

Dive Brief:

• Express Scripts, Caremark and Optum Rx are turning to an appeals court to try to reverse a legal setback in their ongoing feud with the Federal Trade Commission.
• The PBMs said on Friday they will ask the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the agency’s suit against them for allegedly inflating the cost of insulin, three days after a Missouri district judge ruled the FTC’s case could move forward.
• The PBMs — known as the “Big Three” for their outsized control of the U.S....

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