UnitedHealthcare broadens direct drug rebate program

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Source: Associated Press

By TOM MURPHY 57 minutes ago

The nation’s largest health insurer is expanding a program that passes rebates from drugmakers directly to the people that use their medications.

Beginning next year, all new employer-sponsored health plan customers that use UnitedHealthcare must give the discounts they get to consumers at the point of sale, the insurer said Tuesday.

Pharmacy benefit managers typically negotiate rebates from pharmaceutical companies to help offset the high initial prices set for many drugs. But those discounts rarely flow directly to the people filling prescriptions.

Instead, they are often passed on to companies that sponsor employee insurance plans and are used to reduce premiums or offset other plan costs.

Read more: https://apnews.com/15928e4200f94478be996a8bebc3a2f8

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This is not a way to manage health care cost's in this country, it is not like getting a jeans reduced like at some store, this slight of hand medicine and drug costs is BS,

Alex Azar use to work at Eli Lilly he was fucking lobbyist and will always be a fucking lobbyists...............................