{"id":4732,"date":"2016-10-17T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:20:18","slug":"insurers-pay-more-for-multiple-sclerosis-drug-because-rebates-dont-help-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4732","title":{"rendered":"Insurers pay more for multiple sclerosis drug because rebates don\u2019t help, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">D<\/span>rug makers may offer rebates to payers, but health plans continue to see notable increases in costs for prescription medicines, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/docs\/healthcare\/cc-pharma-100716.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. And this has been especially true for one particularly costly group of medicines used to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/09\/multiple-sclerosis-gene-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">multiple sclerosis<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/10\/13\/multiple-sclerosis-drug-prices-teva\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/10\/13\/multiple-sclerosis-drug-prices-teva\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) Drug makers may offer rebates to payers, but health plans continue to see notable increases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","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=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}