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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP231: Pharmaceutical Contracting, PBMs, Pharmacies, Employers, and the HHS Rebate Proposal: What You Need to Know Now, With AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx
Description: Will the Health and Human Services (HHS) proposal materially impact Pharma's ability to "pay to play" on pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) formularies? We have that HHS proposal that is now at the stage where they're trying to figure out how to implement it. What's at stake right now is that implementation flowchart and who exactly is involved in adjudicating the something like $186 billion in potential charge-backs. Since any middleman who gets himself involved in any flowchart of this sort takes a buck, there is a massive land-grab opportunity that all these heretofore hidden players are battling over...