Express Scripts' offices in St. Louis. Credit: Express Scripts
Cigna's Express Scripts, one of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers, today sued the Federal Trade Commission and its chair, Lina Khan, over what the company asserts was a report filled with false and misleading claims about how pharmacy benefit management firms operate.
The report was "74 pages of unsupported innuendo leveled against Express Scripts and other PBMs under a false and defamatory headline and accompanied by a false and defamatory press release," the company said in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
