Cost Sharing Fight: PhRMA Says Insurance Design Is Real Pricing Culprit

New report finds increase in use of deductibles and coinsurance charging members list prices.

Cost sharing for more than one-third of specialty drug prescriptions filled in 2015 by members of commercial insurance plans was based on undiscounted list pricing, according to an analysis released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America March 29.

For branded drugs in general, patients were responsible for cost sharing tied to a drug's full list price for about...

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