Healthcare Economist October 20, 2024
That is the title of a KFF article published last week. The results are based on KFF’s 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey. They write:
For KFF’s survey of 2,142 randomly selected companies, officials from those with 500 or more employees were asked how much of the rebates negotiated by [pharmacy benefit managers] PBMs returned to the company as savings. About 19% said they received most of the rebates, 27% said some, and 16% said little. Thirty-seven percent of the respondents didn’t know.
While a larger percentage of officials from the largest companies said they got most or some of the rebates, the answers — and their contrast...