Report in writing online to Insurance Commissioner AND Attorney General but ALSO rn during an election year have the “Constituency Liason” for one of your local Legislatives do an investigation in addition to the first to. There was several major lawsuits against the big red pharmacy one as by the FCC. Many have noticed that their monthly co-pay doubled there at that Rx recently!! 🥴 Gotta be criminal if Bill Hates is one of their biggest Investors (stock) etc. So the fact the condiment packages for fast food have about 12 toxic additives (salt, etc) and he’s invested during those during the Plandemic upon closing all the healthy restaurants !!
I'm a small pharmacy owner and I cringe when I see this! It's so sad, I feel like I'm working for CVS. And this doesn't even take into account the DIR fees, all this would be so illegal in any other Industry
Dear Dr. Bricker, Thank You!this is the simplest video I have ever seen regarding new CVS pricing change. We are a small independent pharmacy. Quick question: under New MAC for B- independent pharmacy, how does PBM know our acquisition cost? I think they will pay us $12 instead of 14.
Dr. Bricker, your videos are always educational and informative. Thank you for all you do. I noticed that your math was incorrect at the beginning of your video when you added "$8 + $10 + $12" at line 3:36 in your transcript and said it equaled $20 when it should be $30. Does that impact your calculations and overall cost variances?
I love this video.. my only question is why is the True Cost model does not include Acquisition Cost? Is it being replaced with Dispensing Fees? Thanks.
Few questions: 1) When you say it is better to fill from CVS versus MCCPP in the new model, this is from the perspective of whom? If I’m tracking properly, the patient pays the same, the PBM (Caremark in this example) spread goes up for A & C, and the plan costs stayed the same? 2) Also, in this example the difference for CVS was $1, but is this magnified for most expensive biologics and such? 3) what is stopping them from making the delta between dispensing fees larger at CVS vs others(ie competitors)
All good questions. 1. The patient if they have an HSA compatible plan with no copays 2. The revenue stream for specialty drugs like biologics takes the form of commissions (called ‘rebates’) from the pharmaceutical company to the PBM.
