Cardinal's pharmaceutical and specialty solutions segment distributes branded, generic, and specialty drugs and over-the-counter healthcare and consumer products. Cardinal plays a central role in the ...

Drug distributor Cardinal Health on Thursday raised its fiscal 2025 adjusted profit forecast as strong demand for costly specialty medicines and branded drugs drove sales at its pharmaceuticals unit.

The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report this week on the prescription drug middleman industry, which ...

Revenue at Optum Rx, the company's pharmacy benefit manager, increased by 15% in 2024 as it added new clients and built on the relationship with existing ones. It also enhanced the pharmacy ...

The biggest middlemen — CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts — are part of huge ... As part of their “vertical integration,” the big PBMs each own a mail-order specialty pharmacy. The big PBMs ...

presented evidence that UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx, along with its two main competitors, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, inflated the prices of specialty generic medications, particularly ...

The pressure against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs ... Express Scripts and Optum Rx) on specialty generic drugs, highlighting substantial price markups by PBMs on medications for cancer ...

The Federal Trade Commission has released its second report digging into how the business practices of pharmacy benefit ... Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx of jacking up the price of ...

The findings are part of an investigation into pharmacy benefit managers ... The biggest middlemen — CVS Caremark, OptumRx and St. Louis-based Express Scripts — are part of huge health ...