The pharmaceutical market has experienced a massive wave of vertical integration between pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health insurers in recent years. Using a unique dataset on insurer-PBM ...
As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months ...
on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through vertical integration, industry dominance ...
Insurer-pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) firms control most of the Medicare Part D market, steering patients to their ...
Vertical Integration and Market Power The FTC report also addresses the issue of consolidation and vertical integration in the PBM industry. Many PBMs are owned by or affiliated with large insurance ...
CVS Health is a hybrid of vertical and horizontal integration, as it combines a pharmacy chain, a pharmacy benefit manager, and a health insurer. Vertical and horizontal integration have both ...
"The latest introduction of potential legislation to restrict PBM operations and broader healthcare vertical integration is unlikely to gain traction, although it is hard to dismiss outright ...