“While mycareINsight is more user friendly than the chargemaster, it still provides charges, which are not what people will pay,” Platt said. “Charges represent a starting point for hospitals contracting with insurers who routinely negotiate discounts from charges on behalf of enrollees.” Platt said the guidelines are a step in the right direction. “I think […]
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and two other insulin makers must face claims they gouged diabetes patients through deceptive price lists for their life-saving drugs. U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti in New Jersey on Friday allowed a proposed class-action lawsuit filed by 67 diabetics against Lilly, Novo Nordisk A/S and the U.S. unit of French […]
Prices coming to television The whole purpose of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising is to get patients to go to their doctors and inquire about a brand-name drug, which is why most ads’ “action item” is telling you to “talk to your doctor.” DTC is also a practice that’s banned in every country except for the United […]
Current laws have tied the hands of our state medical programs by denying them the right to negotiate medication prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers. We tell them that they will have to take what they can get and deal with the price gouging. So in turn, the state programs have to constantly judge which brand is […]
At a time when we at Kaiser Permanente are working hard to find efficiencies that bring down costs, our pharmaceutical costs keep going up. In the last two years, prescription drug prices for Kaiser Permanente in Washington have increased by $70 million. The situation is even worse for specialty drugs. These higher-cost, hard-to-manufacture, or hard-to-handle/administer […]
When the Texas Rangers polled their season ticket customers on what their biggest priority was for seats at the new stadium, the message was no personal seat licenses. The dreaded PSL is the bane of every single season ticket customer all over this great nation. The Rangers delivered. There are no personal seat licenses for […]
After some widely publicized price cuts in 2017, Whole Foods Market Inc. is upping prices on a wide range of products, according to multiple media reports. The price hikes range from 10 cents to a few dollars. The Wall Street Journal reports the increases are because of demands from consumer-product makers to help cover their […]
During President Trump’s State of the Union speech, he spoke about the urgent need to lower prescription drug prices. He talked about global freeloading and the injustice of Americans paying more for drugs that are made here than foreign countries do. He discussed the need for price transparency, where drug manufacturers reveal their list prices […]
Connecticut lawmakers are considering plan that would level the playing field at gas stations across the state. Part of the reason why residents pay different prices in different parts of the state is due to “zone pricing” – gas stations in different areas pay their wholesale distributors different prices. Critics call it price gouging. Some […]
Executives from T-Mobile and Sprint faced tough questions from lawmakers on Wednesday about how the companies’ planned merger would affect prices and jobs, especially in rural America. The deal to combine the No. 3 and No. 4 U.S. wireless carriers, struck in April, was approved by both companies’ shareholders in October and has received national […]
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Pricer’s Points: Why Does Bottled Water Cost Significantly More than Tap Water? | Elena Galli
More or less one month ago I was at the airport, heading back to Barcelona after having spent some days in my hometown, Ferrara, a little city in Northern Italy. I was very thirsty so I headed to the first bar I saw and ended up spending an excruciatingly expensive price for my half a […]
This Week in Pricing > 2/16/19
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Remember MoviePass? It was just delisted | The Chestnut Post
The movie subscription service on Thursday announced a new, complicated pricing structure that is dependent on geography and the kind of movies customers want to watch. Starting in January, MoviePass will offer three plans that members can choose from. The first, called “Select,” starts at $10 a month and will allow subscribers to see three […]
Woman: Retailer Should Honor Penny Label on Display | NBC 6 South Florida
It was a deal so good, Robin Puppo could not believe her eyes. “I’m like, oh my God, what is this?” she said. “It’s marked as a penny.” The vacuum Robin wanted was on display at the Walmart near Sawgrass Mills Mall. She says the label under it read one cent. “It’s a $279 machine,” […]
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