Many Hospitals Get Big Drug Discounts. That Doesn’t Mean Markdowns for Patients.
- Leo Zini
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min read
Through a government program aimed at helping low-income patients, some hospitals buy medications at reduced prices. They can sell them to patients and their insurers for much more.
A decades-old federal program that offered big drug discounts to a small number of hospitals to help low-income patients now benefits some of the most successful nonprofit health systems in the US...