Aldeen’s Sunday Morning Bathroom Read – Labor Day Edition

“The local not for profit facility has a choice to make: either accept the Charlie Brown lump of coal by way of hundreds of financial assistance applications and ongoing risk in perpetuity unless the member hits the lottery or marries an NBA player) OR enter into a direct contract with the plan at a very favorable rate.

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PBMs Adopt English Language Gymnastics

Documents and industry insiders suggest that PBMs’ pledges to pass the rebates (commissions) they get from drug makers back to their clients are a sleight of hand. In recent years, PBMs have changed what they call some of the money they take from pharma. Instead of rebates (commissions), these payments now go by such names as “administration fees,” “data fees” or “inflation protection.”

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