Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a...
by _jal on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:05AM
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No, that's wrong. It is far worse than that.
There's an entire industry of entities involved with medical pricing. One of the players in one of the larger niches, a Pharmacy Benefits Manager[1], recently bought an insurer[2]. Manipulating, negotiating and offering various financial and marketing products (it gets really blurry) around medical pricing is huge business.
There's an entire industry of entities involved with medical pricing. One of the players in one of the larger niches, a Pharmacy Benefits Manager[1], recently bought an insurer[2]. Manipulating, negotiating and offering various financial and marketing products (it gets really blurry) around medical pricing is huge business.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/business/dealbook/cvs-is-...