UnitedHealthcare's legal drug dealing arm is, according to the government, massively marking up the cost of life-saving medications. In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission is charging OptumRx, UHC's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), with inflating the cost of "numerous specialty generic drugs... by thousands of percent, and many others by hundreds of percent." Along with the PBMs associated with Cigna and CVS, Optum allegedly price gouged on drugs like matinib, the generic version of the leukemia medicine Gleevec, the prostate cancer drug abiraterone, and the HIV medicine lamivudine. The latter was marked up to quadruple of what the so-called […]

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