The 'clawback': Another hidden scam driving up your prescription prices
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 5:55 pm
LA Times - 8/9/2017 - Michael Hiltzik - In July, a Marin County woman named Megan Schultz went to her local CVS drugstore to fill a prescription for a generic drug. She forked over $164.68, the co-pay designated by her health plan. Schultz feels she got ripped off. What she didn’t know, according to a federal lawsuit she filed this week, was that she could have acquired the drug at the same store for only $92, if she had chosen to pay cash instead of using her pharmacy insurance benefit. But her pharmacy didn’t clue her in. Read more @ http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... y,amp.html