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From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue.
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US FTC finds major pharmacy benefit managers inflated drug prices for $7.3 billion gain
From 2017 to 2022, the companies -- UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts -- marked up prices at their affiliated pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of ...