Healthcare DIVE August 29, 2024
Testimony from the heads of Express Scripts, Optum Rx and Caremark in July defending pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices could be coming back to bite them.
The chair of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is threatening the leaders of the three largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country with steep fines — or jail time — for allegedly lying in a recent congressional hearing.
Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent letters Wednesday to Patrick Conway, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx; Adam Kautzner, the president of Cigna’s Express Scripts; and David Joyner, the president of CVS’ Caremark arguing that statements they made in a July hearing contradicted committee findings and research by the Federal Trade Commission.
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