Comments on: Sell Your Captive PBM – Why? http://georgevanantwerp.com/2008/06/16/sell-your-captive-pbm-why/ Topics Of Interest In Healthcare & Communications Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Time To Sell? « Patient Centric Healthcare http://georgevanantwerp.com/2008/06/16/sell-your-captive-pbm-why/#comment-3268 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:06:02 +0000 http://patientadvocate.wordpress.com/?p=1144#comment-3268 [...] Managed Care, PBM / Pharmacy, Value Propositions. trackback There is always debate about captive PBMs (i.e., those owned by a managed care company).  In theory, I have always argued that they should [...]

]]> By: Dan http://georgevanantwerp.com/2008/06/16/sell-your-captive-pbm-why/#comment-2711 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:54:54 +0000 http://patientadvocate.wordpress.com/?p=1144#comment-2711 PBMs use to be owned by big pharma which had some rather obvious conflicts of interest, and that is why there are owned by managed care companies now. Furthermore, and due to your health insurance providing PBMs at the same time, Doctors are getting paid around 100 dollars every time they prescribe or switch on of thier patients from a branded med to a generic.

The whole system is about looking for ways to deny complete health care to others that may be needed.

[Just for the record, I am not familiar with any time that physicians have been paid for prescribing or switching their patients. - George]

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