Are generic drug prices going up or down? Depends on which benchmark you ask

Ben LinkSeptember 22, 2025NADAC, Medicaid, Generic, Gleevec, Imatinib, WAC, AWP, Average Wholesale Price

How PBMs can use private-labelled drug products as a great escape from anti-steering policies

Ben LinkJuly 22, 2025Medicare, PBM, Part D, Mark Cuban, Express Scripts, CVS, Optum, Kaiser, 340B, Quallent Pharmaceuticals, Cordavis, Nuvaila, PBM steering, Imatinib, Capecitabine, Aripiprazole, Medicaid, Lisinopril

Medicare’s addiction to disconnected drug prices

Ben LinkSeptember 10, 2024Generic, Medicare, PBM, Part D, AWP, dispensing fee, Transparency in Coverage, Suboxone, Buprenorphine-naloxone, opioid use disorder, addiction treatment, NADAC, Medicaid

Is 2024 the start of a brave new world in drug pricing?

Ben LinkJanuary 12, 2024WAC, AWP, PBM, Brand drugs, Generic drugs, NADAC, CVS, Express Scripts, Medicaid, Mark Cuban, Insulin, Flovent, Price increases, List prices, Rebates, American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, AMP

How PBMs distort and undermine specialty drug pricing guarantees

Ben LinkMay 10, 2023Specialty, WAC, AWP, specialty drugs, PBM, Brand drugs, Generic drugs, Effective rate, NADAC, Linda Cahn, CVS, Express Scripts, Optum, Emgality, Retevmo, Imatinib, Gleevec, Hyalgan, Medicaid, Medicare, Mark Cuban, Ohio

The Rise of the Drug Mix Empire

Ben LinkJanuary 2, 2021WAC, Brand drugs, List prices, Price increases, Medicaid, Launch

Two new dashboards released to assist with drug shortage research

Ben LinkMarch 19, 2020COVID-19, China, India, FDA, Drug shortages, drug prices, NADAC, Omeprazole, Medicaid, Prilosec, Lisinopril, Epclusa, sofosbuvir, naproxen, hydrocodone, ranitidine, hydroxychloroquine

New Medicare Part D 'Ski Slope' shows seniors' wild drug pricing ride

It’s the middle of July. A time of year for pool parties, barbecues, campfires. and generally sweating your butt off. It’s a relaxing time of year for the majority of us. But what about the ski bums out there? It’s a long six months (five if you are lucky) until the first big dump of the year. At 46brooklyn, we sympathize with people who are impatiently waiting for things – except rather than waiting to shred the gnar, we’ve been anxiously waiting to shred through Medicare Part D drug pricing data. Good news, drug pricing enthusiasts; we have a big (data) dump for you! After months of work on our newest drug pricing tool, we are pleased to release the new Medicare Part D Drug Pricing Ski Slope dashboard. In this viz, we give you the ability to select one of many drugs (brand and generic, oral solid and non-oral solid), and view the price set by thousands of Part D plans for your selected drug. For good measure, we added a line to show you the true market-based cost of the drug (based on NADAC), so you can see how frustratingly random Part D pricing is by different plans for the same drug. So get your balaclava on and join us as we traverse the Part D drug pricing slopes.

New drug pricing analysis reveals where PBMs and pharmacies make their money

For the first time in our existence, CMS has released drug pricing data that overlaps with the date of our launch. As we ripped open the data and examined CMS’ gift, we found some major changes in the way that the state of Ohio reported their data – and it has revealed some eye-opening information about PBM and pharmacy margins on prescription drugs. Given all the drug pricing noise out of Ohio, and the federal heat on PBM “spread pricing,” we decided to do a deep dive into what’s happening in Ohio, and how its new data provides incredible clues to determine where the money flows within the drug supply chain.