Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9211
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Publication type: Journal Article
Gibaldi M.
Vertical integration: the drug industry and prescription benefits managers.
Pharmacotherapy 1995 May-Jun; 15:(3):265-71
Abstract:
An overview of how prescription benefits managers (PBMs) operate is presented and how they impact physician prescribing and the pharmaceutical industry are described.
Keywords:
Commerce/standards
Conflict of Interest
Drug Costs
Drug Industry/economics
Drug Industry/standards
Drug Industry/trends*
Drugs, Generic
Economic Competition/trends
Humans
Managed Care Programs/economics*
Managed Care Programs/standards
Managed Care Programs/trends
Negotiating
Prescriptions, Drug/economics*
Primary Health Care
