Specialty Drug Prices Leap in Ohio, Lifting Bottom Line for Pharmacy Benefit Managers
When the big ball slowly dropped in Times Square to mark the dawn of 2019, something much less visible happened about 500 miles away: The price tag of specialty drugs for Ohio’s neediest residents suddenly jumped.
A prescription for 90 tablets of Capecitabine, a chemotherapy drug, cost about $1,175 on Dec. 31, 2018. That eye-opening price looked downright cheap next to the one on Jan. 1, 2019: more than $2,000, a 70% increase.
