The Federal Trade Commission recently brought action against the three largest prescription drug benefit managers (PBMs) — Caremark Rx, Express Scripts (ESI) and OptumRx — and their affiliated group purchasing organizations (GPOs) for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs, impaired patients’ access to lower list price products and shifted the cost of high insulin list prices to vulnerable patients.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 11 other Republican attorneys general on Monday filed a brief in federal court in Cincinnati arguing that an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons is unconstitutional.

The Federal Trade Commission Monday sued to block the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history — Kroger Company’s $24.6 billion acquisition of the Albertsons Companies, Inc. — alleging that the deal is anticompetitive.

The Federal Trade Commission recently released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2023, which shows that consumer complaints about robocalls and unwanted live telemarketing calls have decreased to a five-year low.

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general Tuesday sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.