Index of Generic Drug Acquisition Costs Now Available to Pharmacies Nationwide; Commercial Plan Sponsors Likely to Shift Away from AWP

Summary and Investment Conclusions First DataBank and Medi-Span are the dominant providers of point-of-sale pricing information to US pharmacies. In December First DataBank announced it would provide National Average Drug…

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Update on Generic Dispensing Margins: Even Ahead of the CMS Final Rule, AWP is no Longer the Prevailing Medicaid Standard

Background State Medicaid programs use a variety of drug pricing benchmarks to determine how much a retail pharmacy is paid when a multi-source (generic, essentially) prescription is dispensed to a…

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