CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth Sue to Nix FTC Case on Insulin Cost (1)

Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group, and UnitedHealth Group Inc. sued the Federal Trade Commission claiming the agency’s in-house case against the drug middlemen over rising insulin costs is unconstitutional.

The action brought in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri comes weeks after the FTC alleged that large pharmacy benefit managers use illegal rebate programs that raise the price of insulin. It is part of a wave of lawsuits from FTC targets that attack the commission’s proceedings.

The FTC case, which targets CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx, was brought ...