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“List prices don’t account for the rebates and negotiated discounts—which totaled $166 billion in 2018 —that are provided to pharmacy benefits managers and other players in the supply chain, plus patients’ out-of-pocket costs vary from plan to plan,” Lindsay Bealor Greenleaf, Director of Policy at ADVI Health, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement Wednesday. “It’s great that the administration has taken steps with a separate pending regulation to address the supply chain distortions caused by rebates paid to pharmacy benefit managers,” Bealor Greenleaf continued. “However, requiring list price disclosure in advertisements before the market has a chance to respond to pending rebate changes is premature and will confuse patients about a treatment’s affordability.”

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