2 posts tagged with "Pricing"

Why transparent drug pricing relies on proprietary pack size data

Last week, a pharmacy manager called me with what seemed like a simple question: "How can I compare the prices I'm paying to NADAC to see where I might be overpaying?" It's a reasonable request—NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) exists to provide transparent pricing benchmarks, and this pharmacy contributes their own purchase data to the system. Surely they should be able to use it for internal analysis, right?

The unfair choice between not easy to use and not easy to afford.

I remember years ago hearing for the first time that in order to know how much drugs cost, people had to pay for a license to a drug information provider. And I don't mean "how much do drugs cost with a GoodRx coupon" — I mean how much does it generally cost a pharmacy to purchase a bottle of a specific medication product.