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The secret drug pricing system middlemen use to rake in millions

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Tags: healthcare, medicine, pharmaceuticals, usa, regulation, drugs, business, insurance.health, prices.drug, costs.distribution, author.robert langreth, author.david ingold, author.jackie gu, source.bloomberg, paywall.soft
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-drug-spread-pricing/

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    I'm not going to edit the published headline - while it's not precisely "secret", pharmacy benefit management isn't transparent, either. This is another source of healthcare market inefficiency in...

    I'm not going to edit the published headline - while it's not precisely "secret", pharmacy benefit management isn't transparent, either.

    This is another source of healthcare market inefficiency in the U.S.; a privatized oligopoly service layer was added to drug distribution for cost management, and it's become a profit-extractive industry.