{"id":13817,"date":"2019-08-15T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:20:26","slug":"pharmacy-benefit-managers-negotiated-18-billion-worth-of-rebates-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13817","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy benefit managers negotiated $18 billion worth of rebates in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to a new Government Accountability Office report, it found Pharmacy benefit managers negotiated $18 billion worth of rebates from drug manufacturers within Medicare\u2019s prescription drug program in 2016, and they retained less than one percent of those rebates for themselves. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pharmacy-benefit-managers-medicare-rebates-31e528a4-890e-4cf3-9894-da3c302589cf.html\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10072\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Government Accountability Office report, it found Pharmacy benefit managers negotiated $18 billion worth of rebates from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13818,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}