Oncologists Were Paid To Prescribe Generic Chemotherapy (Here’s Why It Didn’t Change A Thing)

Oncologists Were Paid To Prescribe Generic Chemotherapy (Here’s Why It Didn’t Change A Thing)

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Forbes
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A private insurer, UnitedHealthcare, tried to incentivize oncologists to prescribe generic chemotherapies by giving them financial bonuses for doing so. For example, a generic medication that would have previously been accompanied by a $12 markup now received a $500 one. That’s a lot of money; but, from the insurer’s perspective, it would have been more than made up by the savings accompanying the use of the generic drug. (In this case, the brand name drug costs $7,000 more than the generic equivalent.)