New ways to control drug costs
June 1997
New ways to control drug costs will affect your practice.
Managed care plans already make big use of formularies. They contract with manufacturers behind the scenes to use one drug in a therapeutic class.
The health plan earns "rebates" from the manufacturer for shifting usage to a "preferred" drug...for example, to one ACE inhibitor, one statin, etc.
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