CVS, UnitedHealth press for FTC Chair Khan to be removed from PBM lawsuit
- CVS and UnitedHealth Group have requested that Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and two commissioners recuse themselves from a lawsuit, citing “blatant bias.”
- They argue that Khan, Alvaro Bedoya, and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter have “prejudged” their opinions about pharmacy benefit managers and made incorrect statements.
- CVS stated that the commissioners’ public condemnations show their minds are “irrevocably closed” to opposing views, necessitating their disqualification from the case.
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CVS, United Health Seek Removal Of FTC's Khan In PBM Case
Major pharmacy benefit manager owners are calling on a Federal Trade Commission administrative judge to disqualify three Democratic FTC commissioners from the agency's in-house lawsuit accusing them of artificially inflating insulin prices, arguing that the commissioners have repeatedly vilified PBMs and prejudged the proceeding.
CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna ask FTC's Khan to disqualify herself from insulin case
CVS Health , UnitedHealth Group and Cigna have asked U.S. Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan and commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya to disqualify themselves from an FTC lawsuit that has accused the companies of unlawfully inflating insulin prices.
CVS, UnitedHealth Request FTC Chair Recusal Amid Ongoing Pharmacy Benefit Managers Lawsuit
In September, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a formal complaint against three major pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—CVS Health Inc’s (NYSE:CVS) Caremark, Cigna Corp’s (NYSE:CI) Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group Inc’s (NYSE:UNH) Optum—for allegedly engaging in unfair and anti-competitive practices that have inflated the list price of insulin medications. The complaint accuses the PBMs of creating a system that benefits them finan…
CVS and UnitedHealth want FTC Chair Lina Khan to recuse herself from a case over insulin prices
CVS (CVS) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) on Tuesday demanded that Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan and two other commissioners recuse themselves from the agency’s lawsuit against the companies, accusing them of “blatant bias.”Read more...
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