re: UnitedHealth subsidiary sues Mississippi Board of Pharmacy

I'm always reminded of Russell Long in these instances. Paraphrasing, "If you can't go to their parties, take their money, drink their booze and vote against them, you have no business being in politics" Politicians today drnk their booze, take their money, then get naked on all 4s for them.

We don’t accept them since they got busted for selling patients health info, but in the past they wouldn’t pay anything, opposite actually. They would charge the pharmacy for filing a claim. Say for example you brought an Rx in for amoxicillin and a goodrx card. We submit the claim to goodrx, they tell us to charge you a $10 copay, then they would invoice us for $6 making our net payment $4. Most discount cards are like this.

Here is a claim for a popular antihistamine. Patient paid a copay of $9.87, the discount card took $7 from us for a total reimbursement of $2.87.