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Clawbacks: Settling the score with non-fiduciary pharmacy benefit managers

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This billing practice is known as a “clawback” and you may have no idea it’s happening to your employees or how it impacts your pharmacy costs. Furthermore, pharmacists aren’t allowed to tell patients, under a gag order, that restricts pharmacists from telling patients they are being
overcharged.

These clawback monies are a contributing factor to the unchecked service fees non-fiduciary PBMs rely upon to cover overhead.

Tyrone’s Commentary:

It’s all about the contract. 

1) Demand radical transparency
2) Negotiate financial and nonfinancial contracting terms for both direct and indirect revenues
3) Get educated

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Tyrone Squires, MBA, CPBS

I am the proud founder and managing director of TransparentRx, a fiduciary-model PBM based in Las Vegas, Nevada. We help health plan sponsors reduce pharmacy spend, by as much as 50%, without cutting benefits or shifting costs to employees.

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