Month: May 2021

Hospital Groups Want FDA to Curtail Specialty Drug White Bagging

May 4, 2021 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

Hospital groups are growing more concerned about white bagging—the payer practice of requiring them to obtain specialty drugs, often for cancer treatment, from the payer's chosen specialty pharmacies. | Shutterstock

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and ASHP (the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “take appropriate action” against white bagging—the health care payer requirement that hospitals obtain specialty drugs for insured patients

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Study: Patients with Deductibles and Coinsurance Pay More When a Drug’s List Price Rises

May 4, 2021 Ron Shinkman Views

A new study in JAMA Open Network found that, when brand drug manufacturers raise their list prices, commercially insured patients with deductibles and coinsurance do not directly benefit from the secret rebates the manufacturers pay insurance companies and PBMs. | Shutterstock

Commercially insured patients with deductibles and coinsurance pay more when manufacturers raise a drug’s list price and do not directly benefit from the confidential rebates paid by manufacturers to insurers, according to a study published this morning in JAMA Open

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Hospital Groups Want FDA to Curtail Specialty Drug White Bagging

Study: Patients with Deductibles and Coinsurance Pay More When a Drug’s List Price Rises

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