Tag Archives: MAC pricing

2016 will be a crazy year for PBMs and plan sponsors of pharmacy benefit programs. The cast of characters continues to shrink through market consolidation, and most analysts believe that the trend will continue. At Wilkinson Benefit Consultants (wbcbaltimore.com), we’ve listened to plan sponsors raise the questions of “Where do we turn?” and “How can […]

Good news for plans sponsors who want to reduce their prescription drug costs: generics will continue to be used instead of brands. Bad news: these generics will continue to escalate in cost! The huge jump in many generics during 2014 was not a one-time anomaly.   We expect that generics will continue to rise, and coupled […]

PBM pricing is still a mystery to most plan sponsors of pharmacy benefits. At WBC (www.wbcbaltimore.com), we’re continually seeing spreadsheet comparisons of one PBM’s versus another.  Is that AWP-58% or AWP-62%?  Which one is better?  Which one represents lower cost of the plan sponsor? On the surface, a reasonable person might surmise that -62% is a […]