STAT+: Express Scripts sues FTC over a 'biased' report about pharmacy benefit managers

Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S., filed a lawsuit on Tuesday demanding that a recent Federal Trade Commission report accusing industry middlemen of raising drug prices be vacated.

In scathing language, the company argued the report was “seventy-four pages of unsupported innuendo leveled … under a false and defamatory headline.” The lawsuit also alleged the FTC “followed prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics, and wrongly concluded that PBMs inflate drug costs and harm independent pharmacies.” FTC Chair Lina Khan was also accused of “anti-PBM bias.”

We asked the FTC for comment about the lawsuit, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, and will update you accordingly.

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