TITLE

Clinton eyes $5 dispensing fee under Medicare

PUB. DATE
September 1993
SOURCE
Drug Topics;9/20/93, Vol. 137 Issue 18, p5
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on drug companies' reimbursements for Medicare outpatient prescription benefit in President Bill Clinton's health care reform proposal. Percentile of actual charges by retail pharmacies; Estimated acquisition cost plus dispensing fee; Payment of Medicaid-like rebates by drug companies.
ACCESSION #
9401272826

Tags: MEDICARE;  MEDICAL care costs

 

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