CVS is breaking up its health-care empire:
The era of health-care vertical integration is in the rearview.
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Key FactsCVS plans new prescription pricing model from 2025
Dec 5, 2023 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnbc.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnbc.com
- On December 5, CVS announced plans to replace the complex system determining pharmacy reimbursements and patients’ medication costs.
- CostVantage is intended to reimburse more than 9,000 CVS pharmacies using drug cost, a defined markup, and a dispensing fee.
- CVS executives said individual medicines could become cheaper or more expensive, but more prescription costs should decline overall.
- The existing multilevel system creates ambiguity around fees and markups added to prescription drug prices.
"What this does is it essentially aligns the economics of our pricing for drugs to what consumers will pay at the pharmacy counter," Lynch said of the new model. "What people have been saying is, 'We don't understand, it's not transparent, it's not easy to understand how much drugs cost.'"— Karen Lynch, CVS Health CEO, during CNBC's The Exchange
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