Are specialty drug prices destroying insurers and hurting consumers? A number of efforts are under way to reduce price pressure

摘要

WellPoint, Inc., one of the biggest health care insurers in the U.S., started paying $350-a-month incentives to certain Midwestern oncologists in its network on July 1. What is going on here? All the talk lately has been about insurance companies tightening marketplace networks under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) so they include physicians who accept the lowest possible reimbursement. What's more, WellPoint will start making those incentive payments to oncologists around the country by the end of the year.