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'Negotiated price' technique on prescriptions banned

Examiner Editorial
January 8, 2009

Medicare has banned a “negotiated price” technique that allegedly lowered costs for health insurers and drug-benefits managers while pushing elderly beneficiaries past their prescription coverage limits, and was more costly for the government.



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