PBMs: Will the Amazon Cometh?

Manag Care. 2017 Dec;26(12):17.

Abstract

PBM consultant Linda Cahn says that if Amazon gets into the PBM business it could insist that drugmakers simultaneously submit the net discount price for each of their drugs for the subsequent six months. Amazon could then publicize every drug's actual price, by drug and by therapeutic category.

Keywords: 2018: Year in Preview.

MeSH terms

  • Cost Control
  • Drug Costs*
  • Forecasting
  • Group Purchasing
  • Humans
  • Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services*
  • United States