Same Drug, Different Insurance Tiers, Crazy-High Co-Pays
Santa Ana residents William and Phyllis Stevens encountered this recently when they were both prescribed the same cream for pre-cancerous skin growths. One had a co-pay of $20, the other a co-insurance cost of $300. “There’s no good economic rationale for why this happens,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
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