The Medicare prescription drug benefit: how will the game be played?
Health Aff (Millwood)
; 19(2): 8-23, 2000.
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| ID: mdl-10718018
ABSTRACT
Most recent proposals to add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program suggest using pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to control costs and promote quality. However, the proposals give little detail on the institutional arrangements that would govern PBM operations and drug procurement. The recent Congressional Budget Office cost estimate of the Clinton administration's proposal reflects this lack of detail on how PBMs would function. We sketch an approach for structuring PBM operations that focuses on competition among PBMs, manufacturers, and distributors; incentive pricing; and risk sharing with PBMs.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Prescrições de Medicamentos
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Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde
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Programas de Assistência Gerenciada
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Medicare
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Custos de Medicamentos
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Competição Econômica
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Benefícios do Seguro
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2000
Tipo de documento:
Article