Episode 063 | What is spread pricing and why should you care?

Scott and Anne Marie welcome back Eric Pachman, a consultant and drug pricing analyst with 46Brooklyn. 46Brooklyn is committed to bringing transparency to your prescription transactions, and today Eric talks about spread: the gap between the amount the pharmacy receives for the drug vs. what the payer paid. It should be a simple transaction fee; but because of secretive contracts that bear no correlation to the actual price of the drug, middlemen are raking in profit at the expense of employers.

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