Drug Channels News Roundup, October 2017: FTC Workshop on PBMs, HDHPs, OOP Spending, Hospital Profits, and FDA Biosimilar Cartoons

Eeek! Time for my Halloween roundup of Drug Channels news stories. In this issue:

  • Spooktakular! An FTC competition workshop will include a terrifying panel on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)
  • Scary! The pros and cons of frightful high-deductible health plans
  • Creepy! JPMorgan Chase conjures up surprising new data on consumer out-pocket costs
  • Spooky! Ghastly hospital markups on outpatient drugs

Plus, the FDA treats us to a new educational campaign on biosimilar drugs—complete with groovy shareable GIFs for millennials.

P.S. For a daily haunting, join the zombie horde who shamble after me here: @DrugChannels on Twitter. (ICYMI: Over the past week, I have sent multiple tweets with my $0.02 on Amazon and CVS-Aetna.)

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