Another Point of View (To Preceding Post)

I understand that you have very prestigious degrees and that this is a 5 year old post. However, this is why I felt compelled to comment. You should have known to prepare better, and this shouldn’t have been up for this long.

While you may have the “General Concept”, you clearly lack the requisite knowledge to understand the details behind MAC pricing, or any drug pricing logic for that matter.

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Don’t Get Caught By PBMs’ MAC Mousetraps

big macFor most of the world, the letters MAC conjure up a Big Mac — the inviting super-sized hamburger that people love but enjoy at their peril.

But for health plans providing prescription drug coverage, the acronym represents an incomprehensible concept inserted into prescription coverage contracts by pharmaceutical benefit management companies (PBMs).

Unfortunately, unbeknownst to most health plans, this MAC is far more pernicious than any oversized hamburger. In fact, PBMs insert the MAC concept into contracts in three ways to relieve health plans of millions in savings that they would otherwise obtain from using generic drugs over branded drugs.

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