The Rebate Kings!
To those who are concerned, I’m a pharmacist that is giving pharmaceutical companies 2 hours at least in an 8 hour day, inputting the BIN #, group, id, and asking if they have activated the coupon first. This with my semi-high volume setting we process 20 coupons easily per day. In the end, who is it benefiting? My company, the PBM or the Drug company? These plastic cards have taken over my business. PBMs once were for small claims processing, now they are involved in 70% of all Rx’s and up to 95% of all drug coverage plans. PBM’s set the parameters for physician prescribing, the tiered co-payments, rebates, etc. In summary they control the usage of Rx drugs through incentives. They are Rebate kings. My congress, my state reps and senators, my state board, all seem defenseless against these sleazy operators. They are are running all over us with no opposition. I want to involve my local association… please send them your thoughts, by replying to this post. I would like to put in names so that they might come out and start the fight and stop accepting these time consuming headaches. Even sites like www.yourrxdiscounts.com where you can print out your coupon for drug from Abilify to Norco to Replax to Zoloft. How can someone with an Rx for Solodyn 90mg pay $650 and then someone with a plastic card get the same amount for $25? …To be continued Royd M.

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